
22 Aug
2016
22 Aug
'16
11:57 a.m.
On 08/22/2016 02:49 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
*We* know that, but people doing routers don't. They coded to never drop packets, and added massive buffering to support that. Net result? They broke TCP.
I have a good book "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tanenbaum and David Wtherall that describes what's supposed to happen. Perhaps those people writing the router software should invest in a copy or two. ;-)