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From: Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:47:59 +0100
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Yann Stettler <stettler@cohprog.com> wrote:
[...]

>PS : I missed the begining of the thread, can someone tell me
>how all this will affect the networking capacity of my 386 
>computer connected to the internet via a 9600bps modem ?
>What OS should I use ? :)

Anything other than Solaris...  which sends every packet several times
Anything other than Solaris...  which sends every packet several times
Anything other than Solaris...  which sends every packet several times
...
(retransmit bug on slow links - still waiting for fix... :(  ).

ray

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Ray Auchterlounie                Research Student (still) at:
<rda@kythera.demon.co.uk>            Signal Processing Group
<rda@eng.cam.ac.uk>                  Cambridge University Engineering Dept.
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