Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 07:04:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow start? Message-ID: <199907020504.HAA11523@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19990701161639.29611@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Jul 1, 99 04:16:20 pm
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> > For a host sending to another host on the same *subnet*, no, the sender > > doesn't go through slow-start. (In BSD-derived TCP stacks.) ... > Yeah, digging around, I just found the relevant subroutine: in_localaddr(). i reported this problem about three years ago i think (but then forgot about it and did not fix...) cheers luigi > I was suprised, since I expected slow start in all cases. While I > can understand why slow start may not be desirable on a "local subnet", > some of this code seems dated. I mean, it still calculates the > netmask as CLASS_A(), CLASS_B(), etc. > -- > Jonathan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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