[100307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Oct 21 15:08:33 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:46:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87k5pgfh9v.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
> In my experience, a permanently congested network isn't fun to work
> with, even if most of the flows are long-living and TCP-compatible. The
> lack of proper congestion control is kind of a red herring, IMHO.
Why do you think so many network operators of all types are implementing
controls on that traffic?
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Its not just the greedy commercial ISPs, its also universities,
non-profits, government, co-op, etc networks. It doesn't seem to matter
if the network has 100Mbps user connections or 128Kbps user connection,
they all seem to be having problems with these particular applications.