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

[Bob Briscoe]

Tim,

Thanks for that. Spot on the info I needed.

It's amazing how searching has evolved - I don't even need to search 
myself any more! I just send a request to a mailing list and some 
other nice person does it for me :)

Cheers


Bob

At 16:18 09/09/2011, Tim Shepard wrote:


>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

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Bob Briscoe,                                BT Innovate & Design