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> One final word about window sizes.  If you have a connection whose
> bandwidth-delay-product needs an N byte buffer to fill, you actually
> have to have an "N * 2" sized buffer available in order for fast
> retransmit to work.

Is that as important in the presence of SACK?

rick jones