Subject: Re: sup difficulties...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/1996 17:02:55
Peter Seebach writes:
> Is there a good way to make sup more robust over slow or lossy networks?
> There's an overloaded router between be and sup.netbsd.org which drops
> packets...  About one in 8, I'd guess.

The right thing is for us to implement the TCP Selective Ack options;
normally this wouldn't be easy to deploy but since we control the
operating systems...

TCP selective ack dramatically reduces lossage and performance hits on
lossy nets.

Perry