Just my opinion about the MTU problem when TCM-optimizing:
( ) >>>>3) Path MTU discovery issues >>>[RP] Very important issue. There are some gaming consoles that just by putting their packets in a lightweight UDP tunnel you get a message >>>saying you have MTU issues and everything stops. Debugging is up to the user. >>[Jose] Which game genre are you talking about? Perhaps this only happens when the console is sending MTU packets. Real-time games usually send >> very small ones, but this is a very interesting topic we have to study. >[RP2] The console itself (not a game) does MTU probing. If there is a MTU problem you get a network error. ( ) [Jose] TCM is deployed inside the network (within a network segment), and the end machines do not know that it is being deployed. TCM only makes sense for small-packet flows. Obviously, a TCM optimizer will not multiplex packets if they are big. Those packets will travel in their native form, and the tunnel is not required. So if a console does that test, a good TCM implementation should not do anything. There is another question: we are talking about multiplexing based on a time period. However, the MTU is another limitation. I mean, if the period has not expired yet, but you are near the MTU, you'd better send the packet and begin a new period. What do you think? Jose
