[46752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue Apr 9 21:13:01 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:12:30 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:57:19AM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
>
> Unless, again, there's some sort of limit. 32 MB total, 512
> connections, each socket gets 64 kB until it proves its worth.
> Sockets don't get to play the RED-ish game until they _prove_
> that they're serious about sucking down data.
>
> Once a socket proves its intentions (and periodically after
> that), it gets to use a BIG buffer, so we find out just how fast
> the connection can go.
That doesn't prevent an intentional local DoS though.
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