Re:Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001)
by beagle3 on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:36PM
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> For the most part it works fine.
Only for apps that don't try to utilize maximum throughput. Skype, YouTube, most web browsing, most mail use.
But those that do - like large file transfers over ftp/sftp or a very large email, for example - will cause the meltdown described in this article.
There are some TCP stacks that use RTT rather than packet loss as their congestion metric; Those fair well under a TCP-over-TCP regime (but have other problems)
Only for apps that don't try to utilize maximum throughput. Skype, YouTube, most web browsing, most mail use.
But those that do - like large file transfers over ftp/sftp or a very large email, for example - will cause the meltdown described in this article.
There are some TCP stacks that use RTT rather than packet loss as their congestion metric; Those fair well under a TCP-over-TCP regime (but have other problems)