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From: walsh@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  4.2/4.3 TCP and long RTTs
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 08:35:40 EST
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By having a maximum RTT of 2+ minutes, your RDP connection will stay open
at times when the Berkeley UNIX system will arbitrarily close the connection
after 30 seconds (rather than just informing the application about the
problem).  You are also seeing the benefits of EACKs.

bob