[e2e] TCP Timeouts and TripleDupACK

[Ted Faber]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Detlef Bosau wrote:
> I'm basically interested, whether timeouts could be overcome completely 
> or whether there will be a permanent need for a working timeout scheme 
> in TCP.

I can't think of any other reasonable way to detect loss in a
one-segment window.

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