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TCP Flow Control

The sliding window that stops a fast sender from drowning a slow receiver. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 8 minutes in all.

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  • About 8 minutes
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The first drawn page of TCP Flow Control: The problem
The chapter's first page: The problem

In this chapter

  • The problem
  • The receive window (rwnd)
  • Advertised in every ACK
  • The sliding window
  • Window scaling
  • Zero window = pause
  • Flow ≠ congestion

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