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by the8472 968 days ago
TCP can coalesce acks for multiple packets, can't SCTP do the same?
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kixelated 968 days ago
The protocol can do it, but libsctp (used by browsers) was not coalescing ACKs. I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet.
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Sean-Der 968 days ago
SCTP can (and does) a SACK[0] isn't needed for each DATA chunk.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4960#section-3.3.4

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