Kevin D. Clark writes: > > Dave Johnson writes: > > > Latency and jitter are side effects due to queuing prior to the > > bandwidth limited hop. > > I think that latency has more to do with your transmission medium. > And I think that jitter has more to do with contention.
Ya, I meant to say queuing introduces jitter and latency. The transmission delay of the medium adds latency regardless of congestion. > > Protocols such as TCP are designed to avoid > > introducing latency when a slow link is in the path. > > I think that the design of TCP more has to do with using the network > efficiently and with operating reliably in the presence of congestion. > > I'm not sure how TCP is designed to avoid intoducing latency. The > protocol tries to operate reliably but doesn't really make any > guarantees that the bytestream will make it to the destination by a > certain time. Should have said avoid introducing excessive congestion. Latency is a side-effect of that. -- Dave _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
