On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Fred Baker wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Jeyasekar Antony wrote: > > > > I heard that TCP is not suitable for high speed network because of its > > is it true? is there any research work going on in this context? > > you might look at tcpm. Also http://www.aciri.org/floyd/hstcp.html > The discussions happen across our high speed (2.5 and 10 G in many > places) backbone, and use SMTP, which runs on TCP Hardly the best example of an application that needs to get maximum bandwidth out of a connection. Practically no SMTP connections will get near to filling the BDP of that kind of network. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ FISHER: VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. MAINLY FAIR. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf