> But. The Ascend is just a router "in between" - why should it know about
> window sizes, ACKs etc? MaxMTU - I can see that. But the rest should be
> an end-to-end thing.
The suspicion is that the Ascend TNT has a fixed buffer size for each
conventional modem connection. A large window size causes a buffer
overrun which means packets are lost.
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