[freenet-dev] Packet size proposal

[Michael Rogers]

Evan Daniel wrote:
> Sure, the arms race will continue.  Hence "near-term future."  For the
> near-term future, we want to be on the winning side of it, rather than
> assuming we can switch to the way that *currently doesn't work*.

:-) OK, good point, right now is a bad time to switch to TCP.

> You're also ignoring the reason they're forging resets rather than
> throttling -- they don't need to modify the main routing hardware to
> inject packets, they do need to modify it to drop or delay them. Thus
> it's cheaper to forge TCP resets than to throttle UDP or TCP.

Don't most routers these days have RED/WRED built in? Dropping the 
occasional packet from a flow will cause any TCP-like congestion control 
mechanism to slow down, regardless of whether it uses UDP.

> They
> certainly *can* throttle things properly, but the point remains that
> they aren't, and likely will continue doing exactly what they're doing
> for the near term future.

You're right, I guess a temporary advantage is better than none.

Cheers,
Michael