TCP congestion
Philip Lavine
source_route at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 12 18:07:00 UTC 2007
Can someone explain how a TCP conversation could degenerate into congestion avoi
dance on a long fat pipe if there is no packet/segment loss or out of order segm
ents?
Here is the situation:
WAN = 9 Mbps ATM connection between NY and LA (70 ms delay)
LAN = Gig Ethernet
Receiver: LA server = Win2k3
Sender: NY server = Linux 2.4
Data transmission typical = bursty but never more that 50% of CIR
Segment sizes = 64k to 1460k but mostly less than 100k
Typical Problem Scenario: Data transmission is humming along consistently at 2 M
bps, all of a sudden transmission rates drop to nothing then pickup again after
15-20 seconds. Prior to the drop off (based on packet capture) there is usually
a DUP ACK/SACK coming from the receiver followed by the Retransmits and congesti
on avoidence. What is strange is there is nothing prior to the drop off that wou
ld be an impetus for congestion (no high BW utilization or packet loss).
Also is there any known TCP issues between linux 2.4 kernel and windows 2003 SP1
? Mainly are there issues regarding the handling of SACK, DUP ACK's and Fast Ret
ransmits.
Of course we all know that this is not a application issue since developers make
flawless socket code, but if it is network issue how is caused?
Philip
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