File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

T. Shepard
C. Partridge

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpimpl (tsv)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2416

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Abstract

This memo is to document a simple experiment. The experiment showed that in the case of a TCP receiver behind a 9600 bps modem link at the edge of a fast Internet where there are only 3 buffers before the modem (and the fourth packet of a four-packet start will surely be dropped), no significant degradation in performance is experienced by a TCP sending with a four-packet start when compared with a normal slow start (which starts with just one packet). This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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