On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:24 +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote: > >In my current implementation at home, I use TC/HTB rules to priortise > >outgoing acks. This definately helps esp when doing huge Linux ISO dl's > >through Bittorrent. > > > >Why delay Acks?? Just because you want to delay/make/simulate the normal > >TCP behaviour of making the window smaller?? > > > > > > > ...because "we" don't want bittorrent to go faster.... Hmm.. I see your point in that by ack the BT packets, they will come in faster. > > The goal is to slow things down, not speed them up. Granted though that > prioritising acks is useful up until the client is using the desired > amount of bandwidth, after that we want to slow them down again Until a better method of priotising/delayin the ACKs, I guess I will have to content with priotising ACKs so that web-requests ACKs will still get through faster. Hmm.. didn't BRam Cohen come out with BT 4.0 which is supposed to mark BT packets as "BULK"? > Ed W -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:43:17 up 6:14, 6 users, load average: 0.30, 0.41, 0.27 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
