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Subject: Re: bandwidth 'depredation'
To: marco@esi.it (Marco Colombo)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:08:49 +0100 (BST)
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> But so how is QoS going to change things? It's the output queue of
> the router on the other side of the ADLS link that needs management
> (and maybe you need to speak some protocol like RSVP), or am I missing
> something? How can you control the rate of *incoming* packets per
> connection / protocol? 

For  tcp it works fine. You drop stuff late but it still triggers
backoffs as needed
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