From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 6 16:23:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02414 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com (biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com [205.162.1.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02409 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jas@flyingfox.com) Received: (from jas@localhost) by biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03414; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Shankland Message-Id: <199804062323.QAA03414@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> To: Anthony.Barlow@europe.simoco.com, chrism@keyworld.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@plinet.com, jas@flyingfox.com Subject: Re: Bandwidth limiter for services? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher Martin at Home" writes: > How about setting throttles on the hosts from the start in order to avoid > interim congestion prior to the normal TCP cutback... This is called "slow start"; it's included in the price of your TCP stack. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message