Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

[Lars Eggert]

On 2009-3-17, at 12:10, Tony Finch wrote:

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Joe Maimon wrote:

TCP needs drops to manage to the right speed.

This is whats bad. TCP should be slightly more intelligent and start

considering rtt jitter as its primary source of congestion information.

TCP Vegas did this but sadly it never became popular.
(It doesn't compete well with Reno.)

Lars

FWIW, Compound TCP does this (shipping with Vista, but disabled by default.) There are other delay-based or delay-sensitive TCP flavors, too.

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