Published at LXer:
One of the fundamental question, which TCP answer is the Protocol suited for higher transmit rate. So how fast a TCP can go? What all the performance and reliability issues with TCP as transfer rate goes up and up. PAWS (Protection Against Wrapping Sequence) is one such consequence as the network bandwidth goes up. This method is used for Identification and rejection of old duplicate packets which can re-appear in current wrapped Sequence windows or new tcp connection.
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