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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Kilburn)
Wed Jun 19 03:34:58 1996
To: Pedro Roque Marques <roque@di.fc.ul.pt>
cc: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:19:26 +0100."
<199606182119.WAA01978@oberon.di.fc.ul.pt>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:07:27 +0200
From: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>
>
> Maybe someone could fill in the details of what is expected from such
> a feature since if there is demand for it and if it's dead simple i'm sure
> we can make a GPL version of it....
A traffic shaper - like delay the acks which will slow down the sender
for one thing. Slowing down the taking of data by the driver on the tx
side as well.
