On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh. I believe I was fooled by the use of the term 'user', thinking > this means a person. User seems to really mean 'physical network > connection to policed network'.
Right, but at the end ISP can simply punish people that use too much since now they get feedback from upstream that certain packets caused bottleneck and passed. I wrote this on a cross-post with my research mates (they deal with P2P a lot): [quote -- So at the point of congestion, packets with higher weight will go through, but at the same time, those packets will incur a toll fee (so to say) and the node that sent that packets (the previous router) must pay up in the next packet it sent. The feedback goes back up, node by node, to the originating host, which has to pay the toll amount. Any node that does not pay up will be punished. Now, it could simply be that ISP is the one paying the toll fee and it will keep track of which IP sent the packet and simply deduct his monthly "account". --] But I have to thank you! (: It made me re-read the article and understand it even better than my initial cursory reading. (: -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
