On Monday 23 June 2003 11:36 pm, Toad wrote:
> * Setting the outbound bandwidth limit to 2/3 of the value in the config
> file. This is entirely empirical; in theory it should work with it
> being the value in the config file, with the minor (unresolvable)
> issue that TCP sends acknowledgment packets for data being received,
> and I'm not sure how we can possibly estimate this (help would be
> greatly appreciated - if you can tell us it uses N bytes for each
> packet, we can implement that. I suppose at some point I may look up
> the RFC).
An ACK packet with no data is 40 bytes. This is only the raw IP packet and
doesn't count Ethernet/PPP/other-link-type overhead.
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