Re: TCP send behaviour leads to cable modem woes

Svein Ove Aas (svein.ove@aas.no)
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:04:51 +0200


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fredag 27. juni 2003, 21:57, skrev Mika Liljeberg:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 22:45, Svein Ove Aas wrote:
> > Incidentally, while googling I heard someone saying that only works if
> > it's enabled on both ends? Of course, that might be if upload/download
> > are 'both' affected, in which case it wouldn't apply to me.
>
> It's a sender side only algorithm, so enabling it at your end should be
> enough to help the uploads. For downloads it needs to be on at the other
> end, of course.

Well, it doesn't appear to have any effect.
(What is it *supposed* to do? Something about spurious retransmission
timeouts, was it?)

I'm going to research this a bit more on my own, if none of you have any
further ideas. If I find a solution it should probably be in a HOWTO
somewhere, so I'll get back to you if/when that happens.

- - Svein Ove Aas
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