On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:03, Greg Stark wrote: > Damion de Soto <damion@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > because you can't shape inbound traffic. Shaping works by delaying the > > transmission, and you can't delay packets that haven't arrived yet. Ingress > > policing just drops packets, and hopes the sender will slow down. > Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but wonÂt the sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate? I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol that speeds or slows the transmission. Please do explain in the TCP/IP for complete idiots terminology ;-)) With best regards. Sanjay. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
