On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Mark Allman wrote:
Well, that is quite wonderful, but when I approached this problem with a collegue of mine over a sat link for a client that wasn't our experience and after considerable tweaking we ended up having to settle for less.
PS: got pointers to documents detailing the 500mbps over OC-12 sat link? email addr will do, as well, I'd love to find out what they did.
Yep, sorry -- I should have included a pointer. Try:
David E. Brooks, Craig Buffinton, Dave R. Beering, Arun Welch, William D. Ivancic, Mike Zernic, Douglas J. Hoder. ACTS 118x Final Report High Speed TCP Interoperability Testing, July 1999. http://ctd.grc.nasa.gov/5610/publications/TM-1999-209272.pdf
Thanks. [..]
My main point was that there is nothing wrong with the TCP *protocol* that makes it under-perform at large delay*bandwidth products. The implementations are not necessarily up to the job in some cases, but the protocol is sound. [..]
FWIW, I wasn't bashing TCP, I was reporting experience data. -- Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only."