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	RFC 2416:  

        Title:	    When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only
		    Three Buffers
	Author(s):  T. Shepard, C. Partridge
	Status:     Informational
	Date:       September 1998
        Mailbox:    shep@alum.mit.edu, craig@bbn.com
	Pages:      7
        Characters: 12663
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None
        
        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2416.txt


This memo is to document a simple experiment.  The experiment showed
that in the case of a TCP receiver behind a 9600 bps modem link at
the edge of a fast Internet where there are only 3 buffers before the
modem (and the fourth packet of a four-packet start will surely be
dropped), no significant degradation in performance is experienced by
a TCP sending with a four-packet start when compared with a normal
slow start (which starts with just one packet).

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute