I am guessing here, but I would say it would work over geo, meo, etc
depending on your IP stack. If you have a large enough window size and you
generate a long enough timeout value before you retransmit, you should be
OK. From what I have found in some of my IP books with no reference to
IETF standards, the timeout value can be anything. Of course you would
want it to be longer than your round trip time + processing but not so long
that it has a negative effect on transmission, especially since the
connection isn't all that cheap.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Border [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 9:15 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re IP over Satellite
This is really sketchy. I am basically fishing here. I didn't find
anything at the IETF web site...
My management has heard (nth-hand) that there is some kind of statement
or
draft associated with the IETF that says that either IP or TCP will not
work
over satellite links with delays longer than 125 milliseconds. Has anyone
heard of this or is aware of where this may have come from? It sounds like
propaganda from LEO proponents but if there is any technical merit behind
such
an assertion I definately want to see it...
John Border
Hughes Network Systems
[email protected]
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