Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263049AbTHaXBz (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:01:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263050AbTHaXBz (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:01:55 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:38367 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263049AbTHaXBw (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:01:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:02:19 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Larry McVoy , Pascal Schmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news) Message-ID: <20030831230219.GD24409@dualathlon.random> References: <20030831144505.GS24409@dualathlon.random> <1062343891.10323.12.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030831154450.GV24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831162243.GC18767@work.bitmover.com> <20030831163350.GY24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831164802.GA12752@work.bitmover.com> <20030831170633.GA24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831211855.GB12752@work.bitmover.com> <20030831224938.GC24409@dualathlon.random> <1062370358.12058.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1062370358.12058.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 22 On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 23:49, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > 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. > > How about because any undergraduate can do the mathematical proof its > not possible. Unless he controls the ISP end of the link random bursts > of traffic, pingfloods, anything not respecting requests to slow down > will lose voice traffic. they are legitimate tcp connections, not udp or icmp. I'm not saying you can control pingfloods or udp floods or syn floods. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/