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From: gypsy <gypsy@iswest.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] TCP window based shaping
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:45:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42141375.8C57DC5D@iswest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42095013.8030600@wildgooses.com>

Andy Furniss wrote:
> 
> marco ghidinelli wrote:
> 
> > note that drop means 'losing correct data already received'. so when we
> > drop, we need a retransmission, so we are wasting bandwidth.
> >
> 
> Yea - it's a pain, but then you can't rely on anywhere else to do it
> apart from your ISP/Teleco - who will fill a big buffer first.

Andy,

In the absense of an ACK, which cannot occur until the intended victim
receives and says it got the packet, what causes the sender to keep
sending such that the ISP's "big buffer" fills?

I suppose that a better way to ask this question is to ask what RFC(s) I
should be looking up.

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gypsy
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-17  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-08 23:49 [LARTC] TCP window based shaping Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-08 23:57 ` David Boreham
2005-02-09  1:59 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-09 11:34 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-09 22:38 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-11  2:57 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-11 11:05 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-11 18:18 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-11 23:45 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-12  2:16 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-12 13:19 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-13  0:46 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-14  0:27 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-14  0:38 ` marco ghidinelli
2005-02-15 22:33 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-15 22:54 ` Andy Furniss
2005-02-16 14:52 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-02-17  3:45 ` gypsy [this message]
2005-02-17 14:09 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-03-12 10:10 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-03-15 15:24 ` Ed Wildgoose
2005-03-16  7:46 ` Ow Mun Heng
2005-07-09  4:01 ` Don Cohen
2005-07-10 19:55 ` Andy Furniss
2005-07-12  1:50 ` TAKANO Ryousei
2005-07-12  8:46 ` Andy Furniss
2005-07-12 13:44 ` TAKANO Ryousei

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