Andy Furniss wrote: > > marco ghidinelli wrote: > > > note that drop means 'losing correct data already received'. so when we > > drop, we need a retransmission, so we are wasting bandwidth. > > > > Yea - it's a pain, but then you can't rely on anywhere else to do it > apart from your ISP/Teleco - who will fill a big buffer first. Andy, In the absense of an ACK, which cannot occur until the intended victim receives and says it got the packet, what causes the sender to keep sending such that the ISP's "big buffer" fills? I suppose that a better way to ask this question is to ask what RFC(s) I should be looking up. -- gypsy _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
