Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: User MEASL <measl@mfn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bandwidth Throttling Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980911121137.25898A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <9809111839.AA06034@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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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
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