On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 07:52:21PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Saturday 01 January 2005 19:22, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > b) On a fast retransmit, the congestion window is initialized to ssthresh
> > -- in other words, we always set to the linear growth point on a fast
> > retransmit, and never do exponential growth again, except in the case of
> > slow retransmit (or CWM).
> 
> Actually, I'm really confused by this code.  AFAICT, you're never actually 
> doing the fast retransmit; the code that does it is after your "if 
> (tcp_do_westwood_p) {... goto drop;}".  This would, I think, force you to be 
> doing slow-retransmit all the time.

Crud.  You're right.  Need to spend more time with Stevens' vol 2 I guess.

Thanks for all the feedback,

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Kentaro A. Kurahone
SIGUSR1 Research and Development
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