[e2e] High Packet Loss and TCP

[Ian Wakeman]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> writes:

    Craig> Didn't Jon Crowcroft capture some traces from the
    Craig> trans-Atlantic link
    Craig> c. 1990 when we had precisely this problem for a few months
    Craig>    -- the
    Craig> number of packets in the pipe divided by the number of
    Craig> connections was less than 1?

    Craig> As I recall, he found some interesting behavior.

Err, don't think so.  We found lots of strange behaviour in DNS, but
the link wasn't over-stressed and TCP was working ok at that time,
although there was a mixture of TCP implementations.

Jon can correct me if my memory is fading over time.

cheers
ian