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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.
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