From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:50:33 -0500

> The only stack I know of that does this currently is linux, and in doing 
> so does not conform to the spec. ;)  Sending to a BSD receiver will 
> result in the same behavior, so the "right place" to fix this is on the 
> sending side.  (I know the issue of packet vs. byte counting has come up 
> many times over the last 10 years or so, and many arguments have been 
> made on either side... I don't mean this to be flame bait but it's clear 
> what will happen in this scenario.)

John, you cannot change the N-million existing Linux systems
out there doing congestion control via byte counting.  You
cannot do this no matter how much you wish it so :-)
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