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Its a nit-pick, but the article talks a lot about packets in flight, yet tcp doesn't actually care about amount of packets in flight, as much as the amount of b
by MrStonedOne 5y ago
Its a nit-pick, but the article talks a lot about packets in flight, yet tcp doesn't actually care about amount of packets in flight, as much as the amount of bytes in flight, and conflating the two just irks me.
edit: maybe i'm confusing the receive window with something else.
- cranekam 5y agoI think you're confusing the receive window (advertised by the receiver and measured in bytes) and the congestion window (maintained by the sender and based on acknowledged segments). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control#Congestion_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control#Congest...