It isnt for all sorts of reasons including the lack of randomness which
will cause patterns of failed retransmit
> A nastier hack (violates RFCs, but is less demanding on the internet
> links of my provider) is to have TCP send the latest ACK every second
> no matter what. This will trigger a fast retransmit after about 3
> seconds instead of after a longer and longer delay.
A simpler solution is to use Linux 2.1.x - SACK is your friend in loss
circumstances.
Alan
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