Re: [Bloat] Random idea in reaction to all the discussion of TCPflavours - timestamps?

2011-03-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Fred Baker wrote: I'm very much in favor of ECN, which in all of the tests I have done has proven very effective at limiting queues to the knee. I'm also in favor of delay-based TCPs like CalTech FAST and the Hamilton and CAIA models; FAST tunes to having a

[Bloat] Better understanding decision-making across all layers of the stack

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Täht
Michael J. Schultz just put up a nice blog entry on how the receive side of the current Linux network stack works. http://blog.beyond-syntax.com/2011/03/diving-into-linux-networking-i/ There are people on the bloat lists that understand wireless RF, people that understand a specific driver,

Re: [Bloat] Random idea in reaction to all the discussion of TCP flavours - timestamps?

2011-03-17 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 23:50 +0200, Jonathan Morton wrote: On 17 Mar, 2011, at 8:22 pm, Rick Jones wrote: So initialRTO is specced currently to be 3 seconds, with a small but non-trivial effort under way to reduce that, but once established connections have a minimum RTO of less than or