On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Raja Subramanian <rajasuper...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Girish Venkatachalam > <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We can easily control that but what about packets coming to us? > > > > Nothing much we can do there. > > TCP window scaling can get the remote end to slow down and > reduce your incoming packet rate. > > Queueing UDP flows individually and introducing artificial latency > can control well behaved UDP applications. > > Read how proprietary vendors like BlueCoat PacketShaper and > Allot Communications NetEnforcer devices can shape inbound > traffic. They can also shape a single tcp flow asymmetrically, ie. > provide 1Mbps of downstream bandwidth for POP3 and only > 128kbps of upstream (POP is download only). Absolutely. In addition, nowadays ECN is also being used though there are not very many devices that honour this yet. Dropping packets on the incoming interface is a sure way of slowing down specific incoming traffic. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
