From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Boxman Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:06:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Re: how flexible is ingress traffic policing to bandwidth limit? Message-Id: <200406091706.20215.jasonb@edseek.com> List-Id: References: <87wu2hwp8e.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> In-Reply-To: <87wu2hwp8e.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:09, Greg Stark wrote: > Sanjay Arora writes: > > Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won=C2=B4t = the > > sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate? > > no. > > > I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol > > that speeds or slows the transmission. > > yes. > > > Please do explain in the TCP/IP for complete idiots terminology ;-)) > > You could do worse than this: > > http://www.thinkingsecure.com/docs/TCPIP-Illustrated-1/tcp_time.htm#21_0 I have to admit, I am thus far thoroughly enjoying: Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM = '88. August 1988, p. 314-329. It's also available in Postscript format: ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z For those who don't know how TCP handles congestion, this is a rather=20 excellent read. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/