Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:49:38 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:18:55PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:06:33PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:48:02AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > works when we've tried what you said to try isn't very compelling.  I know
> > > this doesn't work from both theory and practice.
> > 
> > Post your configure scripts so we can point you what you did wrong.
> 
> They are Cisco configuration, it won't do you much good.  All the traffic

I don't trust anything but the sourcecode I can read, so please try
again with linux.

> I'm not sure why you are arguing this, if you have a fat pipe feeding into

you never tried with linux, how can you claim you know it doesn't work
in practice? The fact is that you never tried it, while we used it all
the time.

> a small pipe and you are trying to throttle at far end of the small pipe
> isn't it obvious that you can't make that work?  It's not the packets we
> send, it's the packets you send.  And all the flow control stuff is per

it's tcp, it's trivial to rate limit the packets we send, as far as you
go into established somehow.

Andrea
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