Re: Network performance tuning.

[Terry Lambert]

Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:17:14PM -0600, Drew Eckhardt wrote:
> > You can reduce the window size with each ACK, although this is frowned
> > upon.
> 
> There's "frowned upon" and "frowned upon".  :-)  For instance, if
> the only reason it's discouraged is because it causes connections
> to start running slower, then I would consider that something worth
> rethinking.  If there are cases where it actively causes issues
> for the far end stack, then it probably should be avoided.
> 
> That RFC is old enough that it's worth double checking that the
> recommendations still make sence today.

You can congest intermediate hop routers as a result of
them buffering more data than you are now willing to
accept.

Julian's approach was much better, and much cleverer...

-- Terry

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