Rick Jones wrote:
The timeout is also to cover datagrams which just got "stuck" somewhere too (IIRC) and may not necessarily require a multiple path situation.
I guess that's a fair point. Originally, the only possible place for a packet to get "stuck" was in a router but I suppose that may no longer be true.
True. Thankfully, the web learned to use persistent connections so later versions of SPECweb benchmarking make use of persistent connections.
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