Re: a vote for asymmetric connections in a session

[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

At 02:10 PM 9/6/00 -0400, Mike Kazar wrote:
>I think it might be illuminating to try to figure out some algorithms to 
>keep the throughput high even when one of the connections drops a packet 
>and cuts its TCP window size down significantly.

dumb question. Has anyone looked into the ECN proposal?

It seems like the issue here is the impacts of loss in the TCP state 
machine, and those can be mitigated by managing the queues actively. You 
could assert that you want ECN to be implemented in any iSCSI path, which 
should have the effect of managing queue depths without incurring loss.

http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2481.txt