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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   Olivier Langlois  wrote:   
   > With my TCP knowledge, with such a link you would need to increase   
   > TCP send/receive buffer sizes to close to 90MB to respect the   
   > bandwidth- delay product formula but then I see other problems.   
      
   > Since the sequence space will roll over many times before receiving   
   > a single ACK, how does a typical TCP stack react? Is there some   
   > platform stack more clever than others (Linux vs MS, for instance)?   
      
   You would employ both Window Scaling to get the window that large, and   
   TCP timestamps to protect against wraps of the effective sequence   
   space.  Both Linux and MS have supported those options for quite some   
   time now.   
      
   rick jones   
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