On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:41:55 -0500 (EST) Janardhan Iyengar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [I am not subscribed to this list, so please Cc me on all responses.] > > Hello all, > > I have a few questions I'd like answers to: > > * Is burst mitigation for TCP is implemented in Linux? By burst > mitigation, I mean a mechanism to avoid sudden bursts of packets that may > (under several plausible circumstances) be released by a single ack. No, but there have been patches to do it. I can send if interested. Turns out that the rate-halving and congestion window validation that is implemented takes care of this in the normal case. > * If so, is it an option? > > * Is it turned ON by default? > > > thanks in advance, > jana > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Janardhan R. Iyengar http://www.cis.udel.edu/~iyengar > Protocol Engineering Lab -- CIS -- University Of Delaware > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
