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From: Anders Peter Fugmann <afu@fugmann.dhs.org>
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To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Bandwidth 'depredation' revisited
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> 
> Rather than dropping packets, causing retransmits that
> eat into your bandwidth, you could try the new ECN bits.
> If you're downloading from a Linux box, it ought to slow
> down a bit when you claim to be suffering congestion.
> 

Yes - That would really be ideal.
Do you know how to enable ECN on the ingress filter,
or which filter to use instead?

Anders

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