[e2e] tcp in high rate network

Ted Faber faber at ISI.EDU
Mon Jun 17 10:32:58 PDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:20:53PM +0100, Lloyd Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, David Borman wrote:
> 
> > The simplistic answer is that there is nothing in the TCP protocol
> > that limits the speed at which it can work.
> 
> slow start bounds the speed at which you can reach the speed you want.

Well, to be needlessly pedantic, congestion avoidance is worse than slow
start. :-)

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