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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:09:57 +0000
Subject: [LARTC] Re: how flexible is ingress traffic policing to bandwidth limit?
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Sanjay Arora <skpobox@gawab.com> 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?=20

no.

> I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol t=
hat
> 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

--=20
greg

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