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- From: jbvb@vax.ftp.com (James B. VanBokkelen)
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:12:49
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- In article <v61am5o@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
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- dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) writes:
- | Try running PC/TCP over a 64 Kbps link and you'll see what I mean. The
- | PC/TCP timers are not dynamic, and timeouts will occur.
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- The fact that *one* ancient implementation of TCP is broken does not
- mean that all TCPs are broken. All modern TCPs have "dynamic" timers.
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- Perhaps you have a different definition of "dynamic" than I do.
- PC/TCP's TCP retransmit timeout is dynamic, you can see it change
- with the "INET TCP" command. This isn't really the forum to throw
- rocks at random TCPs, but I don't think any of the 4bsd derivatives
- have moved out of their glass houses yet....
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