Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

Leo Bicknell wrote:

As network operators we have to get out of the mind set that "packet drops are bad".

They are bad.

TCP needs drops to manage to the right speed.

This is whats bad. TCP should be slightly more intelligent and start considering rtt jitter as its primary source of congestion information. Designing L2 network performance to optimize a l3 protocol is backwards.