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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 06:24:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, pantzer@ludd.luth.se, dg@root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad behaviour in slow start
Message-ID:  <199805180424.GAA06547@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199805172027.OAA21873@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 17, 98 02:26:45 pm

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> > > The problem is that you can't detect if the other computer is a local peer
> > > or not, there may be routers in the path to it even if the netmask tells
> > > you that it is on the same subnet.  It isn't even true on the ethernet
> > > level any more, switches create the same problems as a router.
> > 
> > It sounds as if you need a mechanism for marking interfaces as
> > local or non-local.
> 
> Too much domain-specific information.  It may be local or non-local,
> depending on what network is hooked up.  (Think networks that do
> fail-over to different media.)

Even in the "local" case, the network being fast or slow does make a
difference. Blasting a full window at startup on a 28.8/33.6 ppp link is
not advisable.

	cheers
	luigi
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