From: Alex Sidorenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:21:58 -0500

> they told us that they use small rcvbuf to throttle bandwidth for this 
> application. I explained it would be better to use TC for this purpose. They 
> agreed and will probably redesign their application in the future, but they 
> cannot do it right now. For the same reason they have to use the old 2.4.20 
> for a while - in big companies the important production software cannot be 
> changed quickly. 
> 
> The fix I suggested is trivial and should have no impact the case of 
> rcvfbuf>mtu, so I think it makes sense to include it in upstream kernel.

I have no objection to the fix, especially John's version.

I was just curious about the app, thanks for the info :)
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