Hi Ramakrishnan,
This does not answer your question, this is just for your information.
RFC 2001 has become obsolete. The newest RFC on Slowstart is
RFC-2581. Difference between the two is not much.
Kingshuk
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am sorry if this is kinda newbie question.
>
> I am implementing the RFC 2001 and I want to know whether SACK and Fast
> Retransmit can coexist. Reading the RFCs has only landed me up in
> confusion. While fast retransmit will send the packet when it sees the
> third duplicate ACK, SACK will retransmit the all the packets after a
> retransmission timeout. If my fast retransmit packet is not ACKed
> before the retransmission timer times out, the same packet gets sent
> two times. That is my problem.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for the patience.
> ramki
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