#7048 NORM Never A: BIC is a bad TCP Congestion Control algorithm

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#7048: BIC is a bad TCP Congestion Control algorithm
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 Reporter:  MatthewWilcox  |       Owner:  dilinger      
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  kernel         |     Version:  Update.1      
 Keywords:                 |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                 |   Blockedby:                
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 There is concern in the TCP community that BIC is too aggressive.
 Apparently this is shared by the Linux networking developers as the
 default (2.6.19+) has changed from BIC to CUBIC.  I think it would be
 advisable to use CUBIC instead of BIC with OLPC.

 'Imminent death of net predicted' ;-)

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