Interactive traffic punishment via MILNET?

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From: tcp-ip
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1985 22:14

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From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow <Geoff@SRI-CSL.ARPA>

For the last few months we have noticed a dreadful condition that
seems to strike with a good deal of regularity when using a
MILNET TAC to connect to an ARPANET Host.  The same thing also
happens when using a local network host gatwayed into the ARPANET
which in turn ends up at a MILNET TAC.

Specifically, this has to do with interactive "links" where two
users are TALKing to one another and there are single character
packets in both directions.  The symptom is that the person at
the TAC's output goes into molasses mode where they receive a
character from the host once every second or so.  This happens on
two different operating systems (Tenex and TOPS-20), and as i
said with directly connected ARPANET hosts as well as those
behind a local network gateway.

Any ideas was is exacerbating this situation?  Anyone else out
there experienced it?

g

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Subject: Interactive traffic punishment via MILNET?
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:14:18 EDT
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