Hello!
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:35:33AM +0100, mukesh agrawal wrote:
> > 2. If this can happen, is it worth changing? In particular, we might not
> > want to wait the entire RTT before retransmitting the packet if it was
> > dropped inside the kernel.
>
> 2.4 has most of the infrastructure neededfor that: TCP gets an error code now
> when the device queue overflows. It currently doesn't send more aggressively
Really it does. rto backoff is not applied in this case and tcp enters
congestion avoidance rather than to slow start.
In fact local drop is equivalent to ECN, with all its advantages.
What's about SYNs, it is lacune. It should be repaired and this is easy.
Alexey
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