I’ve often wondered how much cheating goes on in TCP and who would notice. Many years ago my company made a VPN which tunneled through TCP† specifically design

I’ve often wondered how much cheating goes on in TCP and who would notice. Many years ago my company made a VPN which tunneled through TCP† specifically designed for heavily loaded networks. I changed the Linux kernel to cap our back off time to something like 2 seconds because getting to a 2 minute back off just sucks badly when you are encapsulating a bunch of streams. Happy customers. Happy us, no more “the VPN hangs” complaints. ␄ † Yes, "don't do that", but when you have a mission critical unchangeable protocol sending enormous multi fragment UDP datagrams over a network path with a 10% packet loss rate, something has to give.