Re: [conex] Potentially interesting ConEx problem

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Wed, 06 March 2013 18:31 UTC

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Matt Mathis wrote:

> Which is not the same as saying the idea isn't valuable, it is just that 
> TCP itself isn't quite the right place.

Well, I can't personally understand why the end user wouldn't get a better 
experience by TCP knowing that the wifi link is now up again, so it might 
be good to reset the retransmit timers to 1s instead of waiting 60 seconds 
before trying again.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se