[100554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Fri Oct 26 05:09:00 2007
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:07:43 +0100
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
CC: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0710260045100.28708@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> When 5% of the users don't play nicely with the rest of the 95% of
> the users; how can network operators manage the network so every user
> receives a fair share of the network capacity?
This question keeps getting asked in this thread. What is there about a
scavenger class (based either on monthly volume or actual traffic rate)
that doesn't solve this?
Sam