Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 23:04:00 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcp tuning Message-ID: <17750.839300640@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 17:05:06 CDT." <199608052205.RAA25880@compound.Think.COM>
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Tony Kimball wrote in message ID <199608052205.RAA25880@compound.Think.COM>: > A question for the IP stack experts: I use the Internet quite a lot > between Chicago and Boston, on the MCI backbone. MCI drops 25-50% of > the packets at Willow Springs, and has done for weeks now. This leads > to absolutely terrible telnet latencies -- unusable, even. Is there a > way to tune the TCP timing parameters to provide optimal latency under > lossy conditions, perhaps at the expense of bandwidth. Retrying more > rapidly, for example, would be a help. What else would be helpful? Asking MCI what they plan to do to address the packet loss you are suffering? :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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