[Iccrg] Question on RFC 2988 - TCP Retransmission timer

[Mark Allman]

> On 2007-9-20, at 0:58, ext Sushant Rewaskar wrote:
> > We passively analyze more than 2.8 million real world connections
> > using a
> > very detailed passive analysis tool named TCPdebug
> ...
> > Based on our experiments we have identified several changes to TCP
> > like -
> ...
> > (ii) Reduce minimum retransmission timeouts to 200ms or lower
> 
> did any of these traces include GSM or UMTS access links? Because
> they have transmission delays that can be significantly higher than
> 200ms.

Lars-

I am not sure I follow here.  Are you saying that the min RTO that is
(/was) preventing some sort of bad behavior in networks with GSM or UMTS
components?

allman



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