Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:39:51 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: User MEASL <measl@mfn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling Message-ID: <9809111839.AA06034@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:10:58 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980910150705.24943B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> there are a few bandwidth throttlers but they usually can only throttle
> "OUTGOING" sessions as incoming sessions are controlled by the
> equipment at the ISPs site.
>
> Luigi's dummynet code (see the archives of the 'current, hackers and net
> mailing lists) can do some inbound throttling using queues in incoming
> sessions.
> I haven't tried it but hey give it a try... :-)
I'm not experienced with throttling (but I like the idea).
Can't you control the frequency of the acks on the receiver to
control bandwidth...once the window is full, it seems the bandwidth can be
controlled (there's a discussion about adding a throttling option to wget).
--
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
The Feynman problem solving Algorithm
1) Write down the problem
2) Think real hard
3) Write down the answer
Murray Gell-mann in the NY Times
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