On 2012-05-07, Karthik Manamcheri <karthik.manamcheri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the case when I am flow controlled (meaning I received a Xoff from
> the other end) and my receive buffer fills up, sending a Xoff to the
> other end might overflow the buffer for the other guy, right?
Not really. The Xoff doesn't go into the other guy's receive buffer.
It's processed by the flow-control software (or hardware) before it
gets to the receive buffer.
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