Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 10 November 2010 17:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes
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On 11/10/2010 9:20 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> * Joe Touch | 2010-11-10 09:04:43 [-0800]:
>
>> See RFC2140.
>
> Thank you Joe, this was the source of the idea. I thought about the Linux
> destination cache and to reuse RTAX_CWND from this metric.

Yup - FWIW, I think the Linux cache is basically an implementation of 
what 2140 proposed.

Joe