Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:13:59 +0200 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "M.Jessa" <lists@yazzy.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for networking solution. Message-ID: <20050615201359.GC16227@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20050615190418.GD50157@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <58397.148.122.180.9.1118829978.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> <20050615190418.GD50157@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2005-Jun-15 12:06:18 +0200, M.Jessa wrote: >> I am looking for solution I could implement on a link with a huge >> latency when ping replies can go up to a few hundred miliseconds, e.g >> sateliete links. > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? Satellite links have a > fairly constant round-trip delay and the RTT calculations built into > TCP will happily compensate for this. As long as the TCP window size > is larger than the delay*bandwidth and the packet loss probability is > well below 1 packet per window, TCP should work fine. There's a lot to improve on in this situation, See f.i. http://www.tellitec.be/tellinet/enhanced.html -- Hans Disclaimer: I have a business relation to Tellitec. -- http://hans.dse.nl/ () ASCII-ribbon campaign against vCards, /\ HTML-mail and proprietary formats.
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