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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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:
:the driver should return ENOBUFS
:and TCP should repect that.. 
:I think it already does in fact..
    
    How does the client's driver returning ENOBUFS prevent the server from
    sending too many packets?

						-Matt


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