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Thu Mar 25 11:59:21 PST 2004

So I am not sure about the impact of the reverse link.

>There's 5% chance the SQ won't get through, but only a
>1-(0.05)^4 = .00000625 = 0.000625% chance none of the ECN
>acknowledgements will.   In 5% of SQ'd cases, the sender
>won't slow down.  Even in the miniscule fraction of times
>the sender doesn't 'reliably' get the explicit congestion
>signal, the sender still gets an implicit congestion signal
>and slows down.