Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:50:16 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_input.c Message-ID: <20030313015016.GA95463@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <0HBN00DUOPABZW@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> References: <20030312210107.GA56887@unixdaemons.com> <0HBN00DUOPABZW@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net>
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Jeffrey Hsu (Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:04:22PM -0800) wrote: > >> hsu 2003/03/12 12:27:28 PST > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> sys/netinet tcp_input.c > >> Log: > >> Implement the Limited Transmit algorithm (RFC 3042). > > > Can you elaborate on this? > > Sure. Quoting from RFC 3042: > > The "Limited Transmit" algorithm calls for sending a new data segment in > response to each of the first two duplicate acknowledgments that > arrive at the sender. Transmitting these segments increases the > probability that TCP can recover from a single lost segment using the > fast retransmit algorithm, rather than using a costly retransmission > timeout. Cheers hsu@, des@ and Jayanth. Very appreciated. -- Hiten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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