> The issue i'm trying to raise here is why bother TCP to
> distinguish between
> packet loss due to corrution or due to congestion, why not make the
> corruption loss transparent to sender tcp ? Some of the work
> ive seen in
> doing the above, are split-connection and berkeley snoop
> designs. But they
> are limited to a particular satellite network topologies, where the
> satellite hop is the last hop of the end-to-end path. What about more
> generic topologies ?
You'll find more general topologies dealt with in the PILC working group.
Specifically, there are two drafts you might be interested in. One on lossy
channels, draft-ietf-pilc-error-00.txt, and one on performance enhancing
proxies (PEPs), draft-ietf-pilc-pep-00.txt. You can find them through the
IETF home page or the PILC working group page
(http://pilc.grc.nasa.gov/pilc).
--aaron
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