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Summary

T/TCP provides a simple mechanism that allows the number of segments involved in a data transmission to be reduced, the TAO. This test allows a client to open a connection, send data and close a connection all in the one segment. With TCP, opening a connection, transmission of data and the closing of the connection are all completely separate processes.

The highest savings result with small data transfers. This leads to the conclusion that T/TCP favours situations with small amounts of data to be transferred. HTTP, RPC's and DNS are protocols that require the exchange of small amounts of data.



Mark Stacey
Thu Apr 30 12:26:11 IST 1998