From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 12:42:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25220 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25214 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA15165 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com(alpo 207.76.204.38) by gatekeeper via smap (V2.0) id xma015162; Fri, 11 Sep 98 12:41:14 -0700 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA22644; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpde22633; Fri Sep 11 19:13:08 1998 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Marty Leisner cc: User MEASL , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling In-Reply-To: <9809111839.AA06034@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yes you can, and I'm doing that in some experimental code, but it's hard to control what's happenning doing that because the window changes and lost packets totaly screw up the sequences of acks. On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Marty Leisner wrote: > > 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message