ericb@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Eric J. Bivona) (04/27/88)
I'm curious about work that's being done to make transaction based protocols congestion-sensitive, perhaps dealing with rate based flow control. I'm interested in general, and about ATP in particular. I'm curious to know if anybody can give pointers to research and/or literature on this, and (in a real life scenario) what people think about Apple's scheme to specify time outs. I know it's easier to implement static timeouts, but it's just that: STATIC. It doesn't respond well to congestion (it doesn't respond) and certainly adds to it if you blow an ATP timer. I've heard that Industrial Mac's have a rewritten network package that does do dynamic flow control in ATP, anybody know any details? In terms of general research I know about the V kernel at Stanford, and I'm trying to get a hold of Cheriton's paper on VMTP from SIGCOMM '86. I also know of the RFC for NETBLT, but I don't have a copy of this yet. Thanks! -Eric -- eric.bivona@dartmouth.edu "Forgive me Father, I want to sin" "I don't do funerals." Doonesbury