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From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] TCP window based shaping
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:09:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4214A5AC.8030104@wildgooses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42095013.8030600@wildgooses.com>


>In the absense of an ACK, which cannot occur until the intended victim
>receives and says it got the packet, what causes the sender to keep
>sending such that the ISP's "big buffer" fills?
>
>I suppose that a better way to ask this question is to ask what RFC(s) I
>should be looking up.
>  
>

Basically this is TCP's window scaling algorithm.  In very simple terms 
it discovers the max speed of the link by sending packets faster and 
faster until you start to get packet dropping.  Then tcp backs off a bit 
and slowly probes the limits continuously as time goes by.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-17 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-08 23:49 [LARTC] TCP window based shaping Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-08 23:57 ` David Boreham
2005-02-09  1:59 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-09 11:34 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-09 22:38 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-11  2:57 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-11 11:05 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-11 18:18 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-11 23:45 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-12  2:16 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-12 13:19 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-13  0:46 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-14  0:27 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-14  0:38 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-15 22:33 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-15 22:54 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-16 14:52 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-17  3:45 ` gypsy
2005-02-17 14:09 ` Ed Wildgoose [this message]
2005-03-12 10:10 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-03-15 15:24 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-03-16  7:46 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-07-09  4:01 ` Don Cohen
2005-07-10 19:55 ` Andy Furniss
2005-07-12  1:50 ` TAKANO Ryousei
2005-07-12  8:46 ` Andy Furniss
2005-07-12 13:44 ` TAKANO Ryousei

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