MTU of the Internet?
Dean Gaudet
dgaudet-list-nanog at arctic.org
Sat Feb 7 08:20:56 UTC 1998
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Browsers, and other software which open multiple connections should
> temper their connection counts based on the size of the perceived pipe;
> ie: some connect-level heuristics to do proper PMTUD and _make the
> answer available to applications_ would probably be useful.
How about the browsers just implement HTTP/1.1 and use pipelined
persistant connections? Why invent some new fangled connection management
crud when there's a much better way to utilize the pipe. See
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html> for example.
Just imagine how well that would work if they were talking to a local
proxy.
Dean
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