Re: Linux TCP in the presence of delays or drops...

2006-08-01 Thread Oumer Teyeb
: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Oumer Teyeb wrote: -If multiple timeouts occur for one packet then even if we are using the timestamp option or FRTO TCP linux is not able to detect spurious retransmissions... and TCP linux is able to detect spurious retransmissions only for a single timeout for one packet

Re: Linux TCP in the presence of delays or drops...

2006-07-31 Thread Oumer Teyeb
behaviour occured after only a couple of packets were retransmitted...here it took quite some retransmissions before the same problem happend... any insight into this is greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance, Oumer Oumer Teyeb wrote: Hi all, I have some questions regarding Linux TCP

Linux TCP in the presence of delays or drops...

2006-07-30 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Hi all, I have some questions regarding Linux TCP in the presence of delays or packet drops. It is somehow long mail, but the questions are two or three, just wanted to provide a detailed information so that the problem is clear. thanx for the patience!! Best regards, Oumer Note that for

Re: Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-20 Thread Oumer Teyeb
download times)? because I couldnt figure it out,also is there anywhere where the reordering response of tcp linux described? (it seem dupthreshold is dynamically adjusted based on the reordering history... but I was not able to find out how...)... Oumer Teyeb wrote: Oumer Teyeb wrote: Hi

Re: Strange TCP SACK behaviour in Linux TCP

2006-07-19 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Could you please CC your answers to me? thanx! Oumer Teyeb wrote: Hi Stephen, Thanks for the quick response. I have done what you asked and you can find the files at www.kom.auc.dk/~oumer/sackstuff.tar.gz I have run the different cases 10 times each, NT_NSACK[1-10].dat---no timestamp

Re: Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-19 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Hi David, I am using an emualtor that I developed using netfilter (see http://kom.aau.dk/~oumer/publications/VTC05.pdf for a description of the emulator).. and I emualte a UMTS network with RTT of 150ms, and I use a 384kbps connection. There is UMTS frame erasure rate of 10%, but I have

Re: Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-19 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Hi , Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: Hello! DSACK) is used, the retransmissions seem to happen earlier . Yes. With SACK/FACK retransmissions can be triggered earlier, if an ACK SACKs a segment which is far enough from current snd.una. That's what happens f.e. in T_SACK_dump5.dat

Re: Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-19 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Hi, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: Condition triggering start of fast retransmit is the same. The behaviour while retransmit is different. FACKless code behaves more like NewReno. Ok, that is a good point!! Now at least I can convince myself the CDFs for the first retransmissions showing that

Re: Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-19 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Oumer Teyeb wrote: Hi, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: Condition triggering start of fast retransmit is the same. The behaviour while retransmit is different. FACKless code behaves more like NewReno. Ok, that is a good point!! Now at least I can convince myself the CDFs for the first

Weird TCP SACK problem. in Linux...

2006-07-18 Thread Oumer Teyeb
Hello Guys, I have some questions regarding TCP SACK implementation in Linux . As I am not a subscriber, could you please cc the reply to me? thanks! I am doing these experiments to find out the impact of reordering. So I have different TCP versions (newReno, SACK, FACk, DSACK, FRTO,) as

Re: Strange TCP SACK behaviour in Linux TCP

2006-07-18 Thread Oumer Teyeb
hesistate to ask me if anything is not clear... Thanks a lot for taking the time Regards, Oumer Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:20:47 +0200 Oumer Teyeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Guys, I have some questions regarding TCP SACK implementation in Linux . As I am