Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret

Posted by grey-area on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:56PM
from the everythingsysadmin.com dept.

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Re:Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret by the_d00d on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:47PM (#15086684)

Thanks for the Discovery Science explanation.

Annoying plug though: >Subtext: another feature of Google Cloud that doesn't exist at AWS or Azure. Nothing to turn on, no extra charge.

I get it GCP has TPUs and BBR, but are we really implying that it is more feature complete? I don't agree.

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Re:Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret by benchaney on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:46PM (#15087237)

What happens when some people are using BBR and some people are using a standard algorithm? Does it still share the pipe fairly?

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Re:Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret by novinicus on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:59PM (#15087292)

The article answers this question pretty clearly

"Wait! Even more amazing is that it doesn't ruin the internet if some people use it and some people use the old methods."

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Re:Google's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret by benchaney on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:02PM (#15087306)

Thanks, I missed that the first time.

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