Evan Daniel wrote: > Sure, the arms race will continue. Hence "near-term future." For the > near-term future, we want to be on the winning side of it, rather than > assuming we can switch to the way that *currently doesn't work*.
:-) OK, good point, right now is a bad time to switch to TCP. > You're also ignoring the reason they're forging resets rather than > throttling -- they don't need to modify the main routing hardware to > inject packets, they do need to modify it to drop or delay them. Thus > it's cheaper to forge TCP resets than to throttle UDP or TCP. Don't most routers these days have RED/WRED built in? Dropping the occasional packet from a flow will cause any TCP-like congestion control mechanism to slow down, regardless of whether it uses UDP. > They > certainly *can* throttle things properly, but the point remains that > they aren't, and likely will continue doing exactly what they're doing > for the near term future. You're right, I guess a temporary advantage is better than none. Cheers, Michael
