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This will do nothing for lossless networks, so I'm not sure this is really all that interesting. There is too much money being spent on infrastructure to tolera
by bifrost 14y ago
This will do nothing for lossless networks, so I'm not sure this is really all that interesting. There is too much money being spent on infrastructure to tolerate lossy networks...
- ariwilson 14y agoI think WiFi routers and cellular base stations are pretty important to the world's network infrastructure these days...
- ripperdoc 14y agoAll networks can have packet loss, and the ones we use more and more (the wireless ones) certainly have a higher packet loss rate. Not sure what you are suggesting should be done?
- koenigdavidmj 14y agoRight, but 802.11 has built-in acknowledgments, preserving the illusion of a reliable network to higher layer protocols (TCP being the one where it matters here).
- alexchamberlain 14y agoThe IP infrastructure is a lossy network. It's a reasonably big network...