> Basically you can't directly control how fast people throw data at > you... The only thing you can do is ignore what they are sending you > "and hope they go away"... Well, its a bit more technical than that, but > TCP has only one option and that it is to throw away data that you > already downloaded over your congested 4mbit link and hope that as a > result the sender will slow down Note quite true, there is ECN. > get (steady state). But if you are seeing thousands of new connections > per second remember that you can't control them except by ignoring them > for a bit, so the startup process when they fling lots of data at you > will still hurt quite a lot. Slow start handles this pretty well. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
