Re: download peak control

Hello,

Rainer Weikusat wrote:
Assuming a compliant implementation on the sending side, incoming TCP
traffic could be 'shaped' by means of suitably delayed window
announcements. This would even be easy to implement in userspace,
because it would be sufficient that the receiving application only
empties the socket receive buffer at a certain, predetermined
rate. The sender would then be forced to converge to the same rate.


This actually sounds plausible. Thanks for your answer.


Markus
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