By the way, if you'd like to know how TCP can be improved on high-latency, slightly-lossy (but not congested) links, check out TCP FEC -- Forward Error Correction. Companies sell hardware boxes that implement such algorithms transparently; I don't know if there's a production-quality Linux implementation or not. Given that this guy's packet loss is clumpy, it wouldn't help him. But there are plenty of situations where it would help. -- greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html