{
  "draft": "draft-shepard-tcp-4-packets-3-buff-01",
  "doc_id": "RFC2416",
  "title": "When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers",
  "authors": [
    "T. Shepard",
    "C. Partridge"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "7",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "TCP Implementation",
  "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.",
  "pub_date": "September 1998",
  "keywords": [
    "transmission",
    "control",
    "protocol",
    "performance"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC2416",
  "errata_url": null
}