[clug] Re: Emitting Source Quench When Queues Are Full?

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Oct 2 14:25:43 EST 2003


Quoting "Rose, Robert" <Robert.Rose at team.telstra.com>:

> You could probably look at winding down the TCP window size, but obviously
> this will only help with TCP traffic.  I'm not sure if Linux already has the
> nerd-knobs in the kernel to allow you to do this, but I'm sure someone is up
> to the task.

I do:

route add host mirror.aarnet.edu.au window 2048 dev ppp0

Which works nicely. Then again, you need to know what hosts are hogging the
link. I haven't found anything which dynamically does this yet.

Mikal 

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