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For historical interest, I have wondered if this also applies to TCP/IP over X.25, which was used for a while on JANET, the UK academic network, when IP became
by gnufx 6y ago
For historical interest, I have wondered if this also applies to TCP/IP over X.25, which was used for a while on JANET, the UK academic network, when IP became irresistable. I remember that as working well, but perhaps it didn't really.
- ithkuil 6y agoIIRC X.25 (and related ATM and framerelay protocols) have a built in bandwidth allocation mechanism used to defined virtual circuits that effectively works like a dedicated link and thus doesn't interfere with tcp congestion control algorithms
- gnufx 6y agoThanks. That sounds vaguely familiar now.