North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points)
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. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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