On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Raja Subramanian
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Dropping packets will cause sender/receiver to retransmit and increase
> traffic on loaded links and decrease performance even further. TCP window
> scaling is the best method of shaping bandwidth as it has no retransmission
> and is universally accepted. This is a key differentiator of bandwidth
> shaping
> appliances vs buffering/queueing done in routers.
>
> Agree. Like ECN not being honoured, many routers have not implemented TCP
window scaling.

-- Mohan Sundaram
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