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Re: Imminent Death of the Internet, GIF at 11

To: Simon Spero <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Imminent Death of the Internet, GIF at 11
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 18:03:00 -0400
cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>, Martin Minow <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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Simon Spero writes:
> Remember, though - TCPs initial estimate of the congestion window is 
> never less than one packet, large numbers of opening connections can 
> still (I think) lead to congestion collapse. It can defnitely get close 
> to it.

Sure. TCP, especially without SACK but even with such schemes, more or
less requires an average of no less than one packet per RTT. However,
the other half of what I said is that bandwidth *is* rising.

Perry

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