[Mep-dev] TCP Performance Issues

[Paul Williamson]

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Phil Karn <karn@philkarn.net> wrote:

> Store and forward includes conventional IP routing. A packet comes in,
> it's stored in RAM, a routing decision is made, and it's sent back out.
> There's no conceptual difference between this and a BBS other than the
> time scale.


That's a funny thing to hear from somebody who was just preaching the gospel
of end-to-endness earlier in this same discussion.

If you mean discontinuous networking, yes, that's a qualitatively
> different class of problems that's defined by the lack of a working
> end-to-end path for periods much longer than the end-to-end propagation
> latency.


That description would seem to apply pretty well to amateur radio! If there
are solutions, maybe there would be some benefit for amateur radio.

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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Phil Karn <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:karn@philkarn.net">karn@philkarn.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Store and forward includes conventional IP routing. A packet comes in,<br></div>
it&#39;s stored in RAM, a routing decision is made, and it&#39;s sent back out.<br>
There&#39;s no conceptual difference between this and a BBS other than the<br>
time scale.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That&#39;s a funny thing to hear from somebody who was just preaching the gospel of end-to-endness earlier in this same discussion.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">If you mean discontinuous networking, yes, that&#39;s a qualitatively<br></div>
different class of problems that&#39;s defined by the lack of a working<br>
end-to-end path for periods much longer than the end-to-end propagation<br>
latency.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That description would seem to apply pretty well to amateur radio! If there are solutions, maybe there would be some benefit for amateur radio.</div></div>

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