<<On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:43:56 -0600 (CST), Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Unfortunately, this is not calculated; we still rely on a static > (default 30sec) MSL quiet period. Ideally, it should be possible to > set MSL based on some multiple of RTT for the connection, and default > to a hard coded value if there are not enough samples to calculate RTT. There is no way to `calculate' the maximum segment lifetime unless you are omniscient. It is assumed to be 30 seconds, but in reality can be much, much more. (As a result, TCP is theoretically broken, but the situations in which this happens are rare enough to be masked by other events.) The RTT gives you the *critical path length* of the graph; it does not have anything to do with the MSL except for trivial (two-node) networks. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
