Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Perry E.Metzger
Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because of exponential backoff, aggregated bandwidth of multiple TCP over congested WLAN should not be so bad. However, RED like approach to attempt retries only a few times may be a good strategy to improve latency. A RED approach would be good, but

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Perry; Because of exponential backoff, aggregated bandwidth of multiple TCP over congested WLAN should not be so bad. However, RED like approach to attempt retries only a few times may be a good strategy to improve latency. A RED approach would be good, but in general there has to be a limit on

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19-nov-03, at 17:45, Perry E.Metzger wrote: However, RED like approach to attempt retries only a few times may be a good strategy to improve latency. A RED approach would be good, 15 authors of RFC 2309 can't be wrong. :-) but in general there has to be a limit on the queue. Your wireless

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Perry E.Metzger
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think there is some middle ground between 25000 and 10 ms. 10ms is the middle ground. That's enough for a bunch of retransmits on modern hardware. Coupled with aggressive FEC, that's more than enough time. But the problem with sharing the

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19-nov-03, at 23:16, Perry E.Metzger wrote: I think there is some middle ground between 25000 and 10 ms. 10ms is the middle ground. That's enough for a bunch of retransmits on modern hardware. Retransmits on what type of hardware? At 1 Mbps transmitting a 1500 byte packet already takes 12

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Perry E.Metzger
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19-nov-03, at 23:16, Perry E.Metzger wrote: I think there is some middle ground between 25000 and 10 ms. 10ms is the middle ground. That's enough for a bunch of retransmits on modern hardware. Retransmits on what type of hardware? At 1

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Iljitsch; I think there is some middle ground between 25000 and 10 ms. 10ms is the middle ground. That's enough for a bunch of retransmits on modern hardware. Retransmits on what type of hardware? At 1 Mbps transmitting a 1500 byte packet already takes 12 ms, without any link layer overhead,

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Franck == Franck Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franck My question, how can we deployed WiFi networks in town for global Franck roaming with SIP phones when the IETF itself has trouble to Franck deploy it... Franck Is there something wrong

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Perry E.Metzger
Michael Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franck == Franck Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franck My question, how can we deployed WiFi networks in town for global Franck roaming with SIP phones when the IETF itself has trouble to Franck deploy it... Franck Is there

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Marcus Leech
Perry E.Metzger wrote: Michael Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franck == Franck Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Franck My question, how can we deployed WiFi networks in town for global Franck roaming with SIP phones when the IETF itself has trouble to Franck

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18-nov-03, at 15:56, Perry E.Metzger wrote: The fact that 802.11 tries to be reliable by doing its own retransmits results in massive congestive collapse when a protocol like TCP is run over it. Hardly. TCP plays nice and slows down when either the RTTs go up or there is packet loss (which

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Perry E.Metzger
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18-nov-03, at 15:56, Perry E.Metzger wrote: The fact that 802.11 tries to be reliable by doing its own retransmits results in massive congestive collapse when a protocol like TCP is run over it. Hardly. TCP plays nice and slows down when

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Masataka Ohta
Perry; Radio links like this are simply too unreliable to run without additional protection: TCP isn't equipped to operate in environments with double digit packet loss percentages. I agree with you, Iljitsch. A protocol that had been tuned for use with TCP would have been fine -- heavy FEC and

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-17 Thread Scott Lystig Fritchie
rb == Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rb basic lessons previously learned were not put to use here, e.g., rb lowering the radios so wetware limits range and reduces xmtrs rb bandwidth fight. As someone who has only been peripherally aware of the activities of the NOC Team wireless

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Elliott
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Randy Bush wrote: basic lessons previously learned were not put to use here, e.g., lowering the radios so wetware limits range and reduces xmtrs bandwidth fight. Right. Like this really works. This just ensures that the folks in the middle of the room will get really bad

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-17 Thread Franck Martin
I have been following this thread... My question, how can we deployed WiFi networks in town for global roaming with SIP phones when the IETF itself has trouble to deploy it... Is there something wrong in the WiFi protocol that needs fixing? Cheers On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:38, Chris Elliott

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-13 Thread Brett Thorson
On Thursday 13 November 2003 14:46, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote: Yes, this looks to affect some models of cards and drivers more than other. Unfortunately, I fell this time in the unlucky category. The same model of card, driver, and OS that worked perfectly for many in many other similar

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Chown
Brett, It would be great if you could publish all the issues that came up, how you fixed them, and a brief overview of what you deployed (at the start and end) for the event. Tim On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:50:11PM -0500, Brett Thorson wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 14:46, Romascanu, Dan

Re: [58crew] RE: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-13 Thread Randy Bush
basic lessons previously learned were not put to use here, e.g., lowering the radios so wetware limits range and reduces xmtrs bandwidth fight. Right. Like this really works. This just ensures that the folks in the middle of the room will get really bad performance. Been there. the opposite.