Re: network device and tcp-flow packet ordering

Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Mon, 12 June 2000 21:09 UTC

From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Message-Id: <200006122109.XAA04262@info.iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: network device and tcp-flow packet ordering
In-Reply-To: <200006121744.KAA65040@elk.aciri.org> from Sally Floyd at "Jun 12, 2000 10:44:23 am"
To: Sally Floyd <floyd@aciri.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:09:59 +0200
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> I think that the Limited Transmit approach in
> draft-allman-tcp-lossrec-00.txt makes more sense, of the receiver
> sending dup ACKs, and the sender responding to the first and second
> dup ACKs by sending new packets.  To my mind, this is closer to what

agreed.

	cheers
	luigi
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