Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > > Well, then you run into the nice problem of the RNCs only having 400 kilobytes > of buffers per session and will drop packets if they receive more packets than > that, or sometimes even just because they receive a burst of a few tens of > packets at GigE linerate (because the customer with large TCP window size is > talking to a GigE connected server).
Excessively large buffers are a problem because they break TCP's RTT measurement. Also TCP cannot measure the available bandwidth without packet loss. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Biscay: Northerly or northwesterly, but northeasterly in far southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 in east and far southwest. Slight or moderate. Mainly fair. Good.
