s vermill wrote:

> I'm just not sure there's a good real-world example to help us with the
> theoretical "what if" question.  In what scenario would a large transfer of
> data be attempted with out any type of flow control in the stack somewhere?

Try NFS over UDP. That'll go down the tubes pretty quick in the case of 
speed mismatches and switchbuffer overflows (and packet loss in general).

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

                Regards,

                        Marco.




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