From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 03:13:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C1416A5AC; Wed, 24 May 2006 03:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mallman@icir.org) Received: from wyvern.icir.org (wyvern.icir.org [192.150.187.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253F243D4C; Wed, 24 May 2006 03:13:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mallman@icir.org) Received: from guns.icir.org (adsl-69-222-35-58.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net [69.222.35.58]) by wyvern.icir.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4O3DQXS051743; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mallman@icir.org) Received: from lawyers.icir.org (guns.icir.org [69.222.35.58]) by guns.icir.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3C177B402; Tue, 23 May 2006 23:13:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lawyers.icir.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lawyers.icir.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2349C417007; Tue, 23 May 2006 23:12:26 -0400 (EDT) To: "Bruce A. Mah" From: Mark Allman In-Reply-To: <447361E5.3040603@freebsd.org> Organization: ICSI Center for Internet Research (ICIR) Song-of-the-Day: Bad to the Bone MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_bOundary"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:12:25 -0400 Sender: mallman@icir.org Message-Id: <20060524031226.2349C417007@lawyers.icir.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Marcin Jessa , mag@intron.ac Subject: Re: How to Quicken TCP Re-transmission? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mallman@icir.org List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 03:13:34 -0000 --=_bOundary Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Bruce- > > Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd. Measuring the Evolution of > > Transport Protocols in the Internet. ACM Computer Communication > > Review, 35(2), April 2005. > > http://www.icir.org/mallman/papers/tcp-evo-ccr05.ps > > What a trip, I just read this paper on the train to work this morning. > FWIW, I thought this was a well-done study on an interesting topic. Thanks! > A question and a nitpick: > > Did you try doing any stack fingerprinting to get some idea of the mix > of TCP/IP stacks among the servers / clients you examined? Nope. We conjectured on occasion that tbit could form the makings of a pretty good OS fingerprinting tool, itself. But, we never pursued that or used any other fingerprinting techniques. Sorry. > The percentages in the commentary on Table 5 in the text (second column > of p. 41 in the CCR printing) are sometimes one-off from the percentages > actually shown in Table 5. It took me several tries to get through the > "huh?!?"-ness of this, though the lack of caffeine in my bloodstream at > the time might have been a contributing factor. :-) Ugh. Sorry about that ... :-( allman --=_bOundary Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEc88ZWyrrWs4yIs4RAqoLAJ0W9YVkgzG4yYzCFeHcc9CzS25ScACfZ0Ok 4QvrdVSvIwaBNzCnkZ+vjWk= =8dBf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_bOundary--