Anyone tried tinc with TCP-BBR?

Bright Zhao startryst at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 05:28:40 CEST 2017


I understand the concern of uncertain for TCP-over-TCP by BBR, as the BBR is natively designed to optimize TCP, instead of TCP-over-TCP, but could you articulate a bit more about the beneficial of “sending host when there is a UDP tinc tunnel” in the middle”?


> On 30 Sep 2017, at 11:23 AM, Ryan Mounce <ryan at mounce.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I'm not aware that BBR claims nor attempts to resolve any of the
> inherent issues with TCP-over-TCP. This should still be avoided if
> possible.
> 
> TCP BBR would be beneficial if configured on the sending host when
> there is a UDP tinc tunnel in the middle.
> 
> On 29 September 2017 at 19:34, Bright Zhao <startryst at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We knew the TCP-BBR developed by google and try to optimize the transport efficiency of TCP, I’m wondering will this be beneficial if we put tinc in TCP mode plus the TCP-BBR?
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