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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/08/16 02:05 PM, James Knott via
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<pre wrap="">On 08/22/2016 01:37 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Bufferbloat happens where a slower link meets a faster one, and the
symptoms are indeed insane latency when doing anything that has to
pass through the same buffer as a bulk transfer.
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TCP should detect the slow transfer and back down the transmit rate.
When buffers overflow, they're supposed to drop packets.
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<p><font size="-1">*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.<br>
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<p><font size="-1">--dave</font><br>
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