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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
> 
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