On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:13:16 +0200 Brent Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hiya > > I got this question to ask, and I was hoping the TCP/IP gurus would be > able to help me understand this. > > K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic > leaving you, how it is that torrent clients say they can control the > download as well as the upload. I would think the client can only > control the upload. If the client reads from a TCP socket slower than the data is coming-in, the buffers fill-up and the sliding-window algorithm in TCP causes the sending side to slow down. A traffic shaper could efficiently regulate downloads by proxying TCP. And even though PF does some limited TCP proxying, unfortunately dummynet and altq work at the IP level. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
