Re: Bandwidth 'depredation' revisited

From: Anders Peter Fugmann (afu@fugmann.dhs.org)
Date: Fri Jun 14 2002 - 04:16:13 EST


Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> Rather than dropping packets, causing retransmits that
> eat into your bandwidth, you could try the new ECN bits.
> If you're downloading from a Linux box, it ought to slow
> down a bit when you claim to be suffering congestion.
>

Yes - That would really be ideal.
Do you know how to enable ECN on the ingress filter,
or which filter to use instead?

Anders

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