Re: TCP

["Greg Shepherd" <gjshep at gmail.com>]

On Dec 16, 2007 3:17 PM, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Fred Baker wrote:
> > On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Jeyasekar Antony wrote:
> > >
> > > I heard that TCP is not suitable for high speed network because of its
> > > is it true? is there any research work going on in this context?

TCP can fill a big pipe as long as the RTT isn't high and the packet
loss rate is near zero.

-G

> > you might look at tcpm.
>
> Also http://www.aciri.org/floyd/hstcp.html
>
> > The discussions happen across our high speed (2.5 and 10 G in many
> > places) backbone, and use SMTP, which runs on TCP
>
> Hardly the best example of an application that needs to get maximum
> bandwidth out of a connection. Practically no SMTP connections will
> get near to filling the BDP of that kind of network.
>
> Tony.
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