Re: [RFC] TCP limited slow start

2006-06-05 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:46:57 -0400 John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Rolled my sleeve's up and gave this a try... > > > > This is a implementation of Sally Floyd's Limited Slow Start > > for Large Congestion Windows. > > Limited slow start is useful as a work

Re: [RFC] TCP limited slow start

2006-06-03 Thread John Heffner
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Rolled my sleeve's up and gave this a try... This is a implementation of Sally Floyd's Limited Slow Start for Large Congestion Windows. Limited slow start is useful as a work-around for bottleneck queues that are inappropriately short. I don't think it's good to run

[RFC] TCP limited slow start

2006-06-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Rolled my sleeve's up and gave this a try... This is a implementation of Sally Floyd's Limited Slow Start for Large Congestion Windows. Summary from RFC: Limited Slow-Start introduces a parameter, "max_ssthresh", and modifies the slow-start mechanism for values of the congestion window w