[Iccrg] Can TCP stay in slow start 'for ever'?

[Tim Shepard]

A thread on the tcpm mailing list from 2007 seems relevent.

Here is a message in the middle of that thread... walk the tree of
followups to see messages which discuss the status (as of 2007) of
this stuff in a couple of widely-used TCP implementations:

     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg02868.html


I don't know if the code that is out there now adequately handles the
particular issue you raisd (connection never goes idle but is not
fully making use of the cwnd it is rapidly growing).

			-Tim Shepard
			 shep at alum.mit.edu