[e2e] OS Implementation of Byte Counting during Congestion Avoidance

[Saurabh Jain]

FreeBSD surely does it. At least the version (5.3),
which i looked at. I am not sure about NetBSD and
OpenBSD.

--- Salman Abdul Baset <salman at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> I was wondering if OSes implement byte counting
> during congestion
> avoidance. From my investigation it appears:
> 
> 1) Linux
>    2.6.16 and higher implement RFC 3465 Appropriate
> Byte Counting during
>    slow start. However, it does not implement byte
> counting during
>    congestion avoidance.
> 
> 2) Windows XP
>    Does not implement byte counting during slow
> start and congestion
>    avoidance.
> 
> 3) Windows Vista
>    Will implement RFC 3465 which means byte counting
> during slow start.
>    Not sure about byte counting during CA.
> 
> 3) MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD?
>    Does anyone who uses these OSes know if they
> implement byte counting
>    during slow-start and congestion avoidance?
> 
> Thanks
> Salman
> 


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