From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] TCP Rate Control
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:45:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-105302800911022@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-105291155220508@msgid-missing>
On Thursday 15 May 2003 21:17, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > Packets are not dropped but delayed. At that time, the server noticed
>
> that
>
> > the packets are not arriving at a speed > 100kbps (they are queued in the
> > bucket) at the client and throttle downs. When the server throttles down
> > below 100kbps, the queued packets can be send again because there are
>
> tokens
>
> > available in the bucket. So after some time it will be stable at
> > 100kbps.
> >
> > Again, I don't know how tbf works. This is just the way I think it
> > works.
>
> Its worth reading up on how RED works while you're at it. There are many
> good
> whitepapers on RED/GRED w.r.t. how TCP handles exponential backoff. As I
> understand it, TBF may not work all the time because the TCP server
> (sending the packets) may respond incorrectly to the delayed ACKs on the
> part of the client. Dropping packets in a RED fashion as the queue builds
> up instead of queuing the packets should get perfectly stable 100kbit/s.
I think we can use some test results to prove this. Varun ??
Stef
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 11:36 [LARTC] TCP Rate Control Varun Varma
2003-05-14 18:00 ` Stef Coene
2003-05-14 19:59 ` Brandis Jaroslav
2003-05-14 20:09 ` Stef Coene
2003-05-14 23:06 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-05-15 17:06 ` Stef Coene
2003-05-15 17:53 ` Stef Coene
2003-05-15 17:53 ` Varun Varma
2003-05-15 18:34 ` Varun Varma
2003-05-15 19:15 ` Stef Coene
2003-05-15 19:45 ` Stef Coene [this message]
2003-05-15 21:11 ` Varun Varma
2003-05-16 9:20 ` Stef Coene
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