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

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:09, Greg Stark wrote:
> Sanjay Arora <skpobox@gawab.com> writes:
> > Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won=C2=B4t =
the
> > sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate?
>
> no.
>
> > I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol
> > that speeds or slows the transmission.
>
> yes.
>
> > Please do explain in the TCP/IP for complete idiots terminology ;-))
>
> You could do worse than this:
>
> http://www.thinkingsecure.com/docs/TCPIP-Illustrated-1/tcp_time.htm#21_0

I have to admit, I am thus far thoroughly enjoying:

Jacobson, V., Congestion Avoidance and Control. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM=
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'88. August 1988, p. 314-329.

It's also available in Postscript format:

ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.ps.Z

=46or those who don't know how TCP handles congestion, this is a rather=20
excellent read.