Hi - I'm not sure which "buffer" you mean in this case? Maybe you mean the shared network buffer in the bottleneck router or perhaps the buffer within the host operating system at the sender? Or do you mean the interface buffer in the network interface card? Gorry > Hi folks, > > Might be a dumb question, but I would appreciate if someone could answer: > 1) If I use DCCP protocol on Linux for one connection and TCP for > another and both connections send data concurrently, would they compete > for any (shared) buffer space in the OS, or they are completely > independent of each other? > 2) If the buffers are independent, is there a good way to ensure > fairness, such that it doesn't happen that DCCP connection never gets > its turn because TCP connection is sending all the time? > > Thanks, > Leo >
