- Stefan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neal Cardwell [SMTP:cardwell@cs.washington.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 11:08 PM
> To: syn@cs
> Subject: early packet train discard?
>
>
> in the 590s where we discussed EPD, Tom alluded to something analogous
> like "early packet train discard". i think this meant somethig like:
> if
> you discard a TCP segment with sequence number X, discard all segments
> from this flow with later sequence numbers. did i get this right? if
> so, i
> don't understand the point yet. it seems like it's still nice to have
> the
> other packets get to the receiver, if we want to get 3 dupacks and get
>
> fast retransmit to fill in the hole, at which point the receiver will
> ack
> all the data and the sender can go on.
>
> i could see that, if we know that the window isn't big enough to
> elicit 3
> dupacks, we might want to drop all of them. is there another reason?
>
> neal
>