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Re: [pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:56:34 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Tony Finch wrote:

Excessively large buffers are a problem because they break TCP's RTT measurement. Also TCP cannot measure the available bandwidth without packet loss.

Well, actually it can. ECN.

And regarding RTT measurement, since mobile network vary delay a lot, that's not going to work well anyway.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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