{
  "number": 2416,
  "title": "When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers",
  "authors": [
    "T. Shepard",
    "C. Partridge"
  ],
  "published": "1998-09",
  "status": "Informational",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "tsv",
  "working_group": "tcpimpl",
  "pages": 7,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "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). This memo provides information for the Internet community.",
  "keywords": [
    "transmission",
    "control",
    "protocol",
    "performance"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-shepard-tcp-4-packets-3-buff-01",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2416",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2416/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc2416.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2416",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2416/"
  },
  "text_modified": "1998-09-01T18:55:52Z"
}