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From: hal@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Hal Feinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: low speed tcp
Message-ID: <8811301317.AA04134@gateway.mitre.org>
Date: 30 Nov 88 13:17:29 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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A few years ago someone tried to put tcp onto a slow LAN.  The conclusion 
was that a "cut down" version of tcp would be less "header intensive" and
probabily be faster.  I'm  looking for pointers to others who may have
done work dealing with tcp/ip over slow, unreliable channels and if
they solved the problem by going to a cut down version. Yes, a LAN
is somewhat reliable; the media were looking at is not and the link
protocol works hard just to get low data rates across. 
TCP (even IP) overhead is a heavy burden. Maybe some other protocol
like XTP is better?