On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Will Dye wrote: > > Under the thread "Size limits", Oskar wrote: > > > I never got a straight answer out of anybody about choking the > > incoming connection. Is it a healthy thing to do? Will it overflow > > your OS buffers and screw with the machine in general or will TCP > > handle it graciously?
<snip - thanks for the answer> > After this decidedly weak research, it still sounds like the only way > to do reciever bandwidth throttling in the short run is to hack > together some crude QoS declarations and buffer management of our own. > A simple example is recievers sending a "dude! slow down, I'm on a > 28.8 modem here" message, and senders all being nice enough to comply. > Yes, I'm cringing at the concept, too -- though I'd gladly take the > assignment if it were given to me. It would not be that difficult to implement a rather crude level of this - since nodes are already handshaking eachother for a version check, you could easily send the prefered bandwidth usage in the handshake message. The only complication is that the handshake message occurs on the same connection, so you would have to choke it while it is active, though that shouldn't be such a big deal (I believe it was Bill Trost who wrote the connection choking code, and he hasn't been around for a while). > I still want to see true bandwith throttling, for several reasons. > I'm the guy who even wanted throttling to occur in response to outside > messages/events. Down the road I'll probably take up the issue again, > but for now, throttling recieves still seems outside the scope of 0.3. > If there's a true TCP guru out there who disagrees, please speak up. I'm not going to debate it now, but just so you know, I still think your "Network administrators should have access to users nodes" idea insane. > --Will > (never speaking for his employers, lest I be throttled by *them*) > willdye at freedom.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
