> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Stutzbach > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 8:50 PM > To: 'Peer-to-peer development.' > Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Hard question.... > > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:34:43PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > > > Saturation is the goal. Wasted bandwidth is bad. > > > > Well, yes, but I'm asking "how do you measure how much bandwidth is > > currently being wasted by other applications, and then only use that > > amount"? > > That is not actually the right question, because the answer is > typically "None or very, very little". TCP's goal is to achieve > saturation and not leave unused capacity. If you try to measure the > "available bandwidth" that TCP leaves behind, you're not going to have > much to work with.
Um... most connections aren't saturated 24x7. Like, I have a 6Mbps connection and sometimes I'm just using AIM. In this situation, I'd like to measure that 5.9Mbps is free. Any clever ideas on how to accomplish this? -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences
