Re: Q on the congestion awareness of routing protocols

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sat, 03 December 2022 13:02 UTC

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Jon Crowcroft wrote:

>>      plus any of many papers on tcp incast

>> I'm afraid that if TCP incast is a problem for control traffic,
>> there should be no bandwidth left for data traffic.

> incast isn't about persistent congestion, it is about synchronised
> sources.

Is it a problem even if all the multicast control traffic
between two routers is exchanged through a single TCP
stream?

						Masataka Ohta