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RFC 2861: TCP Congestion Window Validation

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 7661.

Current version: RFC 7661 — Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document describes a simple modification to TCP's congestion control algorithms to decay the congestion window cwnd after the transition from a sufficiently-long application-limited period, while using the slow-start threshold ssthresh to save information about the previous value of the congestion window. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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Document ID
RFC2861
Published
June 2000
Authors
M. Handley; J. Padhye; S. Floyd
Status
HISTORIC
Stream
IETF
Area
wit
Pages
11
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Obsoleted by:
RFC 7661

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