TCP congestion

Thu Jul 12 21:38:17 UTC 2007

Philip Lavine wrote:
> I just don't understand how if there is 1 segment that gets lost how this coul
d translate to such a catastrophic long period of slow-start. How can I minimize
 the impact of  the inevitable segment loss/out of order over a WAN. Is QoS the
only option?

Different tcp congestion control algorithm... Instead of tcp reno use
vegas or westwood?

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox at packetrade.com>
> To: Philip Lavine <source_route at yahoo.com>
> Cc: nanog <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:09:24 PM
> Subject: Re: TCP congestion
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> Well, if its out of order its the same as if its lost or delayed, it needs to
see that missing segment before the window is full
>
> As mentioned you need to get dumps from both ends, you will almost definitely
find that you have packet loss which tripped tcp's slow start mechanism.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:02:49PM -0700, Philip Lavine wrote:
>> Even if the segment was received out of order what would cause congestion avo
idance to starve the connection of legitimate traffic for 15 to 20 seconds? That
 is the core of the problem.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>
>> To: Brian Knoll <Brian.Knoll at tradingtechnologies.com>
>> Cc: Philip Lavine <source_route at yahoo.com>; nanog <nanog at merit.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:56:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: TCP congestion
>>
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>> On Jul 12, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Brian Knoll ((TTNET)) wrote:
>>
>>> If the receiver is sending a DUP ACK, then the sender either never
>>> received the first ACK or it didn't receive it within the timeframe it
>>> expected.
>> or received it out of order.
>>
>> Yes, a tcpdump trace is the first step.
>>
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