Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 1996 19:32:07 +0100 (BST) |
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> checking that way. NFS: it's owned by the person who made the > filesystem request, obviously. Or you just ignore it and permit it to > everyone. (We don't use NFS, so it's not an issue for us.) ACKs are > handled in a different place in the TCP stack (or at least, they are > in the BSD stack).
NFS is a good example of proxy entries though.
> you're looking at it from the standpoint of the system calls. You > have a lot more information at that layer than you do if you're just > looking at random IP datagrams.
Yes, but not every packet is a system call, and do you charge for retransmissions, and acks or just call those "overhead". If you just want to charge bytes written/read from the socket I agree with you its not hard. I thought you meant per packet accounting,
Alan
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