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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!nott-cs!ucl-cs!news
- From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
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- Message-ID: <2794@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:11:56 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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- >>>>So the question is "who makes those small 48-56 byte packets? And why is it the
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- >Kees, when typing or moving my mouse (both on an X terminal), I don't
- >know about the protocol, but *I* expect an ACK every few bytes, i.e.
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- Briaa,
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- i agree about the bi-modal distribution, but one minor point:
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- if you have all pervasive B-ISDN, it is certainly pretty crazy to run
- TCP/IP, with 40 byte headers, or TP4/CLNP with absolutely enourmous
- headers - you can use very small headers quite reasonably
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- someone should be working on this (apart from the usual cambridge
- university computer lab types who will be out there in 2002 world:-)
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- jon
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