Hello,
Thanks for the answer. But, cant I slow down the rate at which the
app level sees incoming packets by putting a queue in the kernel.
Thanks in advance
Ajit
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> Because the packets have already arrived. If someone throws 2Mbits/second
> of UDP at your line by the time you receive it you can't slow it down. Its
> arrived.
>
> With protocols that respond to packet loss with flow control of their own (ie
> TCP) you can pretend not to have heard them and thus slow the session down.
> There is a patch for this somewhere - I think Andrea wrote it but Im not sure
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