On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:13:59PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > One of the receiver windows? As I recall we were going to use token
> > buckets for fair sharing (on _incoming_ requests).
> 
> Right. The receiver window we advertise to each peer tells it how many
> tokens are in its bucket.
> 
> > Additionally RejectedOverloads are no longer propagated back to
> > source. Load propagates back to source not by RejectedOverload's being
> > forwarded to the original sender (as now), but by nodes punishing
> > flooders
> 
> I hope so, but I'd like to see how the simulations turn out before
> committing myself either way - if we can only manage to restrict
> flooders to an even share of their neighbours' bandwidth,
> RejectedOverloads might still be useful for getting well-behaved nodes
> to slow down.

In which case, we have serious problems; we are not limiting flooding
effectively, and worse we are compromizing requester security.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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