On 08/05/2005 02:31:16 PM, Daniel Hartmeier wrote:
Also, if you rely on well-behaved peers getting their throughput cut
by
you for behaving well, you can expect more aggressive applications to
start misbehaving to achieve higher throughput. You're actually
punishing well-behaved peers vs. aggressive ones. For instance, a P2P
application might very well start to send redundant retransmissions in
the hope to get one out of several through your queue, and it will win
against a nice player.
But all this is already true when you've saturated your WAN
link so there's no harm in trying to shape the traffic anyway.
Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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