From: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:06:27 -0700
> I belive the biggest component comes from link-layer retransmissions. > There can also be some short outtages thanks to signal blocking, > tunnels, people with big hats and whatnot that the link-layer > retransmissions are trying to address. The three seconds seems to be a > value that gives the certainty that 99 times out of 10 the segment was > indeed lost. > > The trace I've been sent shows clean RTTs ranging from ~200 milliseconds > to ~7000 milliseconds. Thanks for the info. It's pretty easy to generate examples where we might have some sockets talking over interfaces on such a network and others which are not. Therefore, if we do this, a per-route metric is probably the best bet. Ilpo, I'm also very interested to see what you think of all of this :-) - 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
