[e2e] High Packet Loss and TCP

[Bob Braden]

  *> 
  *> >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> writes:
  *> 
  *>     Craig> Didn't Jon Crowcroft capture some traces from the
  *>     Craig> trans-Atlantic link
  *>     Craig> c. 1990 when we had precisely this problem for a few months
  *>     Craig>    -- the
  *>     Craig> number of packets in the pipe divided by the number of
  *>     Craig> connections was less than 1?
  *> 
  *>     Craig> As I recall, he found some interesting behavior.
  *> 

I believe that Craig is essentially correct.  Van used these traces in
developing fast retransmit.  He reported on this progress in End-to-End RG
meetings at the time.

Bob Braden


  *> Err, don't think so.  We found lots of strange behaviour in DNS, but
  *> the link wasn't over-stressed and TCP was working ok at that time,
  *> although there was a mixture of TCP implementations.
  *> 
  *> Jon can correct me if my memory is fading over time.
  *> 
  *> cheers
  *> ian
  *>