[GTALUG] Wireless router -- which one?

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Mon Aug 22 14:57:19 EDT 2016


On 08/22/2016 02:49 PM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> *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.

I have a good book "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tanenbaum and David
Wtherall that describes what's supposed to happen.  Perhaps those people
writing the router software should invest in a copy or two.  ;-)



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