[LARTC] Re: how flexible is ingress traffic policing to bandwidth limit?

[Sanjay Arora]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:03, Greg Stark wrote:
> Damion de Soto <damion@snapgear.com> writes:
> 

> > because you can't shape inbound traffic. Shaping works by delaying the
> > transmission, and you can't delay packets that haven't arrived yet. Ingress
> > policing just drops packets, and hopes the sender will slow down.
>
Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won´t the
sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate? I am not so
thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol that speeds
or slows the transmission.

Please do explain in the TCP/IP for complete idiots terminology ;-))

With best regards.
Sanjay.