[e2e] TCP to exhibit MTU unfairness?

Detlef Bosau Detlef.Bosau at web.de
Mon Nov 12 03:46:46 PST 2007


> 
> Dear Community,
> 
> I was wondering if there is something like "MTU unfairness"...  
> similar to the probably not existing "RTT unfairness".


My basic question is: What is the ressource to be shared?

In TCP, the shared ressource is storage capacity along the path. The actual MTU size of a flow does not matter in this context.
So, it is not yet clear to me what you mean by "MTU (un)fairness" or "RTT (un)fairness".


Detlef 



More information about the end2end-interest mailing list