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Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Mon Dec 20 17:39:24 UTC 2004


Paul Vixie wrote:

>
>of course it will work.  it just won't be particularly fast.  specifically,
>it won't allow tcp to discover the actual end-to-end bandwidth*delay product,
>and therefore tcp won't set its window size advantageously, and some or all
>of the links along the path won't run at capacity.  packet reordering is not
>fatal to the technology, but it is fatal to the business.  "not everything
>that can be done, should be done."
>  
>
Since when bad engineering is bad to the big business? The world is full 
of examples to the contrary.

Pete





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