On 27/06/14 04:18, Robert Hailey wrote: > I'm reminded that in networking at-large, one cannot control the rate at > which packets are received (strictly speaking), but only what you do with > them, or how you respond. > > It seems to me that there ought to be something we can do on our side (like > dropping packets, delaying packet acknowledgement, not acknowledging the true > number of packets we have received) to directly effect the math on the other > end in our favor. What is being discussed here is request level load management, not packet level. We need both, but there are fundamental differences. However, for bulk requests, the "capacity" is somewhat arbitrary, as we choose the timeouts... > Said another way, it would be like sending a 'slow down' signal to our own > packet mangler (same node... same machine), instead of sending it off to the > remote node as if a desperate plea for them to stop drowning us in packets > that we cannot process.
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