> This may be a contrived example, and slow start would not even
> kick in on such a small file as a web gif, but the point is that
> these "limitations" are purely restricted to a per-TCP-socket
> basis. In the Unix world, parallel tasks are everyday
> occurrences. It wouldn't take much to produce a file transfer
> protocol which opens multiple parallel sockets for high throughput
> over long fat pipes.
Jon-
We are not overlooking this point. The tcpsat research issues
draft...
Mark Allman, Dan Glover, Jim Griner, John Heidemann, Keith
Scott, Jeffrey Semke, Joe Touch, Diepchi Tran. Ongoing TCP
Research Related to Satellites , May 1998. Internet-Draft
draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-03.txt.
has a section on using multiple data connections to transfer files.
Please read that section for a discussion about what this mechanism
buys you and what the ``costs'' of using it are.
allman
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