Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!drockwel@bbn-vax From: drockwel%bbn-vax@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Any 3Com users out there? Message-ID: <3420@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 10:47:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3420 Posted: Mon Jul 25 10:47:00 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:39:44 EDT Lines: 7 From: Dennis RockwellA warning about compatibility with 4.1c/4.2: the TCP regularly overruns the receive window (usually by a factor of two). This causes extremely poor performance when the 4.2 side is sending to a non-4.2 system, as it waits for its retransmit timer to go off to resend the out-of-window data that got dropped.