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Re: [tcpm] TCP tuning

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Wed, 03 February 2010 17:20 UTC

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Michael Welzl wrote:
>> Agreed. The point is to what extent TCP is modified for fractional
>> benefits for specific communities. TCP is "optimized" to always work,
>> but not to work especially well in any particular environment.
> 
> Yeah... stupid, isn't it?

I'll trade "always" or even "usually" to "works very well in some
places, but not at all in others".

Making TCP smarter is fine; doing so at the expense of robustness is not.

Joe

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