[e2e] 10% packet loss stops TCP flow

Reiner Ludwig Reiner.Ludwig at ericsson.com
Tue Mar 1 23:56:02 PST 2005


At 08:12 02.03.05, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>That's a "rule of thumb" that completely fails performance-wise on
>long-distance wireless links e.g. geostationary satellite, and RFC3366
>warns against the dangers of perfect persistence.
>
>Reiner, do we have to hash out five years of arguing your personal
>beliefs on the IETF pilc mailing list yet AGAIN?

I expected you to be one of the first to jump on this, but it is not fair to say that this is only my "personal beliefs". 

It was the consensus of the PILC WG in the IETF: RFC3819.

///Reiner 



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