Re: We want to prevent packet lost? But TCP needs packet lost.

From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2007 - 03:43:14 ART


John,

How is your lab prep cooming along?

Good luck!

--- johngibson1541@yahoo.com wrote:

> Unless the entire network path can outrun server and
> client's
> CPU dumping data speed, we will always have packet
> lost right?
>
> Even if the network path can run faster than the
> client can
> take, when the server CPU runs faster than client
> CPU, there
> will still be a packet lost, every packet arrival
> takes an
> interrupt. Right?
>
> Every time we talk about QOS, someone will come up
> saying
> we want to prevent packet lost so we want to do this
> and do
> that.
>
> How could that make sense? They are just using that
> to justify
> whatever they want to do what every queue they want
> to make
> for the day or for the month.
>
>



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