[clug] Emitting Source Quench When Queues Are Full?

Duncan Roe duncan_roe at acslink.net.au
Thu Oct 2 11:49:19 EST 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:38:41PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
<snip>
> Only a few packets are dropped. TCP stacks know to slow down when that
> happens. See "exponential TCP backoff", above.

Not if the server is running Solaris 5, it's broken in that regard.
Solaris 8 is OK.

Cheers ... Duncan.



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