Hi, > I've read about people trying > to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still > wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that > would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have I read > about anyone successfully accomplishing this.
TCP uses a window: the maximum number of packects that you can receive before you send an ACK. As long as ACK come flowing, the window size increases. Limit the ACK, you limit/reduce the size of the window, so you limit/reduce the incoming trafic. I beleive there could even be some nasty rewritting that would artifically change the window size so the TCP stream is slowed down. Bests, olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
