On 11/17/05 00:39, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
As much better algorithms for error detection are known
What's better? Can those algorithms run with only a few hardware gates at 10Gbit speeds too?
> and PC performance (and also Internet traffic) has increased a lot since the
introduction of TCP
And "internet speed", didn't that increase too? Don't you think there is some balance there?
> - do you think that the original checksum algorithm
is still the best choice in terms of a reliability/performance tradeoff?
It's good enough and eh, "compatible", it's clueless to try to develop an incompatible version of TCP, that won't be TCP but something else.
+++chefren
