Re: Poor TCP throughput in 2.1.103

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
24 May 1998 18:51:16 +0200

In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980524163000.590A-100000@shawc.demon.co.uk>,
Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Sorry that doesn't help, as I am still advertising a receive window of
>16060, which makes the Ascend fire of a string of packets and then stall
>when I don't ack them.

But. The Ascend is just a router "in between" - why should it know about
window sizes, ACKs etc? MaxMTU - I can see that. But the rest should be
an end-to-end thing.

Mike.

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 Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
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