How to Quicken TCP Re-transmission?

[Mark Allman]

Bruce-

> >   Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, Sally Floyd.  Measuring the Evolution of
> >   Transport Protocols in the Internet.  ACM Computer Communication
> >   Review, 35(2), April 2005.
> >   http://www.icir.org/mallman/papers/tcp-evo-ccr05.ps
> 
> What a trip, I just read this paper on the train to work this morning.
> FWIW, I thought this was a well-done study on an interesting topic.  

Thanks!

> A question and a nitpick:
> 
> Did you try doing any stack fingerprinting to get some idea of the mix
> of TCP/IP stacks among the servers / clients you examined?

Nope.  We conjectured on occasion that tbit could form the makings of a
pretty good OS fingerprinting tool, itself.  But, we never pursued that
or used any other fingerprinting techniques.  Sorry.

> The percentages in the commentary on Table 5 in the text (second column
> of p. 41 in the CCR printing) are sometimes one-off from the percentages
> actually shown in Table 5.  It took me several tries to get through the
> "huh?!?"-ness of this, though the lack of caffeine in my bloodstream at
> the time might have been a contributing factor.  :-)

Ugh.  Sorry about that ... :-(

allman



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