Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2005-Jun-15 12:06:18 +0200, M.Jessa wrote: >> I am looking for solution I could implement on a link with a huge >> latency when ping replies can go up to a few hundred miliseconds, e.g >> sateliete links. > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? Satellite links have a > fairly constant round-trip delay and the RTT calculations built into > TCP will happily compensate for this. As long as the TCP window size > is larger than the delay*bandwidth and the packet loss probability is > well below 1 packet per window, TCP should work fine.
There's a lot to improve on in this situation, See f.i. http://www.tellitec.be/tellinet/enhanced.html -- Hans Disclaimer: I have a business relation to Tellitec. -- http://hans.dse.nl/ () ASCII-ribbon campaign against vCards, /\ HTML-mail and proprietary formats. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
