On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:09, Greg Stark wrote: > Sanjay Arora <skpobox@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won´t the > > sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate? > > no. > > > I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol > > that speeds or slows the transmission. > > yes. > > > Please do explain in the TCP/IP for complete idiots terminology ;-)) > > You could do worse than this: > > http://www.thinkingsecure.com/docs/TCPIP-Illustrated-1/tcp_time.htm#21_0 I have to admit, I am thus far thoroughly enjoying: Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '88. August 1988, p. 314-329. It's also available in Postscript format: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z For those who don't know how TCP handles congestion, this is a rather excellent read. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
