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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Retransmission timeouts (was: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_timer.h) 
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<<On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:10:43 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> said:

> Shouldn't such a change discussion be carried on in
> freebsd-net (where people who really know TCP may be paying
> some attention) instead of here?

Probably.  I've asked Tim Shepard and Dave Clark (the two foremost TCP
experts of my acquaintance) if they know of any formal justification;
Tim replied with some quotatations I already knew about, and I haven't
heard back from Dave yet.

-GAWollman


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