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Re: [conex] Potentially interesting ConEx problem

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Wed, 06 March 2013 05:20 UTC

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Matt Mathis wrote:

> The question I was asking was can ConEx help the content provider know 
> which bottleneck prevails?  Bob?

I tried to get the TCP people look into this, but got shot down. They 
didn't feel TCP would work better by knowing more, or I guess they didn't 
want to handle th complexity.

My idea was that TCP would over time "find out" what the access looked 
like if it indeed was the only thing congesting, and even that the 
connection manager on the machine would inform TCP what the properties of 
the primary connection was (speed, buffering, retransmits, half/full 
duplex etc), and if something substantial (like the link going down or 
coming up, speed changed etc) happened, TCP would be informed of this.

They felt it was better to have TCP find out by itself instead of getting 
fed this information via some API.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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