On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:47:29 -0500 Ted Duffy <tedward@egenera.com> wrote: > However, I think this disparity would cause cwnd to be > increased too aggresively given the true knowledge the TCP is gleeming > from the network based on successful acks. In this case, the ack of a > 50 byte message results in cwnd being increased a full packet size (1500 > bytes, 9k, or whatever else the MTU might be). Your statements would be very interesting if routers dropped bytes instead of packets, however they don't. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html