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Date:      Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Shankland <jas@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?
Message-ID:  <199804062323.QAA03414@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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"Christopher Martin at Home" <chrism@keyworld.net> 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.

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