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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: meder@mcs.anl.gov (Samuel Meder)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:31 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14zPqN-0001Si-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010514161509.B3192@titan.mcs.anl.gov> from "Samuel Meder" at May 14, 2001 04:15:12 PM

> I'm curious about this effect so I've been trying to find information
> on this and while I can find lots of information on the Ethernet
> capture effect there doesn't seem to be anything on the TCP capture
> effect. Could someone point me at an explanation of this effect?

it is exactly the same thing but the backoffs are the TCP level backoffs and
the collisions are between TCP streams. There are statistical approaches to
fairness used in routers (a local capture effect annoyance to you
is rather bad news on backbones).

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-14 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-14 21:15 TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency) Samuel Meder
2001-05-14 21:25 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-05-14 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-15  3:49   ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? God
2001-05-15  6:06     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-15  7:50       ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? :: pathchar God
2001-05-15  3:54   ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? David S. Miller
2001-05-15  4:44     ` God

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