Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets | Date | Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:53:49 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> said:
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> but seeing as a HTTP cache is in essence glueing two TCP connections > togethers, whats to say that the client wouldn't have had the TCP > retransmissions in the first place? all i'm talking about is ensuring that > application "accounting" information is accurate.
Strange charging model, if you ask me. If "somebody" hogs the connection, causing my data streams to need retransmissions, I get charged. If I happen to surf to <http://www.some.exciting.site.org> as the first customer today, I get charged, everybody else gets it for free off the cache. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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