[pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)

Wed Jun 29 11:56:34 UTC 2011

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Tony Finch wrote:

> Excessively large buffers are a problem because they break TCP's RTT 
> measurement. Also TCP cannot measure the available bandwidth without 
> packet loss.

Well, actually it can. ECN.

And regarding RTT measurement, since mobile network vary delay a lot, 
that's not going to work well anyway.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se