Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG!hal 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 Lines: 9 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?