Subject: Re: Melting down your network [Subject changed]
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/28/2005 15:03:50
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:18:56PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>=20
> In message <20050328045603.GB10444@netbsd.org>,
> Bill Studenmund writes:

[snip]

> >This way, you will send data at the desired rate regardless of queue
> >status and without changing the kernel.
>=20
>=20
> That's a reasonable first stab, but its not enough.  You must also
> reduce the send rate in response to NACKs.  Do enough of this, and
> pretty soon you're doing as much as SRM or TCP-SMO are doing.

Complexity smommexity. :-)

Yes, I bet it'd not take long to get into something that approaches=20
work in the literature.

Take care,

Bill

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