Satellite latency

Wed Feb 27 15:36:52 UTC 2002

On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 10:18 , Jim Mercer wrote:

> its been a while since i looked at it, but i seem to recall there was a 
> lack
> of implementation/adhereance to that RFC in windows TCP stacks.

I don't think that has been the case for a while, now.

> i think for RFC1323 to be effective, it needs to be working on the 
> sending
> and receiving systems, not just the intermediary routers.

RFC1323 can only be supported on TCP endpoints, so there's nothing you 
can or should do on intermediary routers.

There are good descriptions of general satellite transmission 
characteristics for IP together with a recipe book of mechanisms which 
can improve TCP performance in RFC2488. RFC2760 may also be interesting.

Joe