>Clearly it _does_ improve his network performance, and there is
>something very wrong with exponential backoff on the Internet.
I am not following. Are you suggesting that because it improves
his performance he should misbehave at the expense of other users?
>Congestion is not a temporary problem that can be fixed in such
>a simple manner.
People have studied this algorithms for years; written a lot
of papers. You are making a blanket statement but i
will give you the benefit of doubt.
I would like to hear your solution.
>Even if every client does the backoff (hah!)
>there will be plenty of packets to which it does not apply.
Most of the internet traffic is TCP which conforms.
UDP packets mostly dont(i guess thats why realvideo runs so well). Router
vendors are now throwing solutions to police such mis-behaving flows.
This is not about the user perceiving delays; it is about avoiding
congestion collapse.
cheers
jamal
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