Re: Very high bandwith packet based interface and performance problems

[Rick Jones]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > TCP _requires_ the remote end ack every 2nd frame regardless of progress.
> >
> > um, I thought the spec says that ACK every 2nd segment is a SHOULD not a
> > MUST?
> 
> Yes its a SHOULD in RFC1122, but in any normal environment pretty much a
> must and I know of no stack significantly violating it.

I didn't know there was such a thing as a normal environment :)

> RFC1122 also requires that your protocol stack SHOULD be able to leap tall
> buldings at a single bound of course...

And, of course my protocol stack does :) It is also a floor wax, AND a
dessert topping!-)

rick jones
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