Hi Joe,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 6/21/2016 12:25 AM, Yoshifumi Nishida wrote:
> > I'm guessing clamping window size won't be a good way to make TCP
> > perform stop-and-wait operation and there is no good way for it.
> > Because TCP is basically not designed to perform stop-and-wait
> > operation, I think you'll have to describe the operation explicitly if
> > you want to do it.
>
> If the window is 1 MSS, then it ought to work just fine as you want.
>
> TCP is designed to run sliding window; stop-and-go is just a name for
> sliding window where N=1. I.e., it is designed for stop-and-go operation
> just fine -that's how a lot of transoceanic links behaved when sharing
> was high and capacity was low anyway.
>

But, tcp's sliding window is not controlled by MSS. It uses byte to control
it..
When you sent 0.1 MSS, TCP doesn't wait for an ACK before sending another
0.1 MSS.
--
Yoshi
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