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Re: best traffic shaper solution for modem line?



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:26:23PM +1100, David Cureton wrote:
> > If so, tough. You can only shape outgoing traffic. Think about it.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Ahhh, surely it would be possible to manipulate the tcp sliding window to 
> cause incomming traffice to be slowed down somewhat. Not sure if any 
> solutions do this but there IS flowcontrol in tcp! Would require modification 
> to the IP stack though!

Yeah, I thought source quench existed for a reason...

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