Re: IPSEC transport mode w/2.2.x kernels and large packets

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sun, 8 Aug 1999 19:12:51 -0400 (EDT)

On 7 Aug, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
+-----
| > to handle amateur radio links. Some of these folks got 40% throughput
| > increases when TCP SACK went in, thats how grotty the links are.
|
| I believe. But do not understand. Seems, AX.25 is reliable protocol, is not it?
| Then fragments are delivered reliably and you can only win of the fact,
+--->8

Nope --- typically AX.25 UI frames are used for TCP/IP; it's up to the
TCP layer to do error detection, retries, etc.

And being a radio protocol it is about as *un*reliable as you can get :)

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