David Miller wrote:
From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:50:33 -0500
The only stack I know of that does this currently is linux, and in doing
so does not conform to the spec. ;) Sending to a BSD receiver will
result in the same behavior, so the "right place" to fix this is on the
sending side. (I know the issue of packet vs. byte counting has come up
many times over the last 10 years or so, and many arguments have been
made on either side... I don't mean this to be flame bait but it's clear
what will happen in this scenario.)
John, you cannot change the N-million existing Linux systems
out there doing congestion control via byte counting. You
cannot do this no matter how much you wish it so :-)
That would make our lives easier, wouldn't it? ;) Clearly there are
some combinations of TCP stacks out there that won't interoperate well
under certain workloads. Making new versions of the stack work well is
the best we can hope for...
Fixing the sending side does not mean we have to back out the
work-around on the receiving side.
-John
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