On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:11:02 -0400 Jonathon Ross <jonathan.ross@instinet.com> wrote:
> Linux's TCP congestion control looks like it uses packets outstanding > instead of segments outstanding for control (unlike BSD). This is a big > problem for us because we use lots of small packets for latency.
Show us a router in the real world that drops "bytes" instead of "packets", and we will change the Linux TCP algorithms :-)
the company i work for ships lots of routers which implement WRED tail-drop with drop probability taking into account the size of a packet.
cheers,
lincoln.
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