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Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by riffraff on Friday November 26, 2010 @04:06PM (#1943306)
Nah, that's not even necessary, I believe: the congestion window is a TCP feature, but any normal user space program (with a few privileges) can create IP datagrams with custom content, so you would only need to implement a bit of tcp in a normal old style monolithic kernel

And since you control the only higher level protocol (your http implementation) you can probably cut some corners and get done quickly :)

Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by panic on Saturday November 27, 2010 @02:51PM (#1945706)
You may be able to create them, but as a server, how would you receive incoming connections?