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Re: eCos vs. WinNT TCP/IP
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- Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos vs. WinNT TCP/IP
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:59:18 -0500
- References: <20000630141049.A29356@visi.com>
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Windows NT, OTOH, just falls over.
What seems to be happening is that every time a packet is lost, NT doubles
its timeout period -- regardless of the actual round-trip time for the link.
After 4 or 5 packets have been lost, NT's timeout has jumped up to several
seconds even though 90+ percent of the packets are ACK'ed within 10-20ms.
Unix hosts, OTOH, seem to actually keep track of the round-trip time for the
link, and calculate a more useful time-out period based on that. Either
that or they just guess better than NT does.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com