On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Kevin Day wrote: > On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> What is really necessary is to detect just the flows that need to >> slow >> down, and selectively discard just one packet at the right time, but >> not more, per TCP cycle. Discarding too many will cause a flow to >> stall -- we see this when Web access takes forever. >> ... >>
I suggest reading the excellent page: "High-Speed TCP Variants": http://kb.pert.geant2.net/PERTKB/TcpHighSpeedVariants [Charles N Wyble] Hank, This is in fact an excellent resource. Thanks for sharing it!