[3345] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jun 20 01:07:57 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: mike@lserv.conexio.co.za (Mike Kilburn)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:23:47 +0100 (BST)
Cc: roque@di.fc.ul.pt, mike@lserv.conexio.co.za, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Jun18.225311edt.106506-7188+5659@vger.rutgers.edu> from "Mike Kilburn" at Jun 19, 96 00:07:27 am
> 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.
"Delay the acks" - this is the nearest TCP equivalent to urban folklore I've
met. You can delay the acks but until you delay them to the point of a zero
window the sender just opens the congestion window up to allow for your delay
thinking you are a very bad path.
