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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!op.net!netaxs.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!btnet!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!xara.net!agate.xara.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!news.swan.ac.uk!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency in the presense of RFC1323 (Was: Re: TCP latency) Date: 18 Jul 1996 09:57:25 GMT Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4sl1q5$je4@news.swan.ac.uk> References: <4s33mj$fv2@innocence.interface-business.de> <4sbrcr$rqd@enomem.lkg.dec.com> <SOUVA.96Jul16132215@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45919 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4128 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24080 In article <SOUVA.96Jul16132215@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de> isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de writes: >Shouldn't this be unimportant in the presence of the RFC1323 round >trip _measurement_ (instead of "educated guessing", which old BSD TCP >did)? Should is the operative word. On my web site the time I sat and logged for a week less than 1 in 10000 requests coming in was using RFC1323. Now what I also don't know of course is if the content favoured a given OS (but its stuff like a tourist board so unlikely to) >Which reminds me of: Did anybody ever analyze why some (old?) Linux >boxes would damage RFC1323 TCP packets routed through them? Only I've never even been able to duplicate it so I cannot offer any explanation other than that it could be a VJ header compression property. If someone has a receipe for this I'd like to chase it further. Alan -- Send unsolicited junk mail to this address and maybe win the chance to have yourself added free to several hundred random mailing lists. ,--------------- ------------------------------------------------------------/ Alan Cox This signature comes with a free redistribution license / alan@cymru.net