Re: Excessive TCP retransmits over lossless, high latency link

kuznet
2001-09-01T18:13:00Z

Hello!

> packet loss and never has a chance to find out about the longer RTT, because
> that only works with new ACKs.

Karn algo calculates right rtt after log(rtt/3sec) retransmits.
It is not so big number. In this case, it is 1 in fact. The only effect
of irtt setting is avoiding one retransmission.

Alexey