Michael Rogers wrote: > toad wrote:
>> We have to design the network on the basis that a lot of users (maybe >> most users) will have lots of files queued up; any throttling that is >> necessary to manage demand must be executed _by the network_. > > Agreed, the main advantage of token passing over throttling is that it > doesn't rely on users to limit their own usage. Is token passing explained somewhere in the wiki? From your conversation it sounds like a mechanism where one issues "tickets" to neighbors, where each ticket means "you can make a request from me". About successful requests being returned: how they are currently dealt with, bandwidth-wise?
