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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,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_input.c
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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

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