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Re: [tcpm] taking RFC 2861 (Congestion Window Validation) to Proposed Standard?

Sally Floyd <sallyfloyd@mac.com> Wed, 25 July 2007 18:16 UTC

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From: Sally Floyd <sallyfloyd@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [tcpm] taking RFC 2861 (Congestion Window Validation) to Proposed Standard?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:16:12 -0700
To: Murari Sridharan <muraris@microsoft.com>
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Murari -

> Most modern stacks use fairly high-resolution timers to track Rtt and 
> hence Rto which means Rto's can be small (although usually there is a 
> minimum enforced). Given that is the case, this may be disadvantageous 
> to applications that don't react "fast" enough. We have had code to 
> decay cwnd on idle periods for a while now, but it has been disabled 
> by default.

Many thanks.
- Sally
http://www.icir.org/floyd/


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