Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:12:25 -0400 From: Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>, mag@intron.ac Subject: Re: How to Quicken TCP Re-transmission? Message-ID: <20060524031226.2349C417007@lawyers.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <447361E5.3040603@freebsd.org>
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--=_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--
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