On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:43:15PM +0200, Nigel Kukard wrote: > > is dropping packets the proper way to slow down traffic on a network?
TCP traffic, yes that would work. The other way is to hold on to the packets and send them out at the rate you desire but that takes a lot of work, so I am sure some (most?) implementations just drop packets until the TCP algorithms calculate the bandwidth (allowed) on the pipe. > (using the bytelimit match). i have somone who is complaining that > as soon as he tries to transfer mass amounts of data with scp, the > connection is dropped. he is using freebsd, could this be the problem? What does "dropped" mean? Somebody TCP_RESETs? Packet dropping should not cause a connection to "drop". Packet dropping is a normal occurance on some network mediums and is completely expected by TCP. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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