Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:15:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | André Dahlqvist <> | Subject | Re: network traffic doesn't balence well on recent kernels |
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> >I've noticed this for a long time on my ppp connections. The first ftp >transfer to get started hogs the bandwidth and subsequent ones get very >little but very gradually improve. I would much rather have it the >other way around so that what I am doing *right now* in the forground is >fast and big ftp transfers get low priority. I really meant to ask >about this a long time ago, but am just now getting around to it. BTW, >does the reciever's tcp/ip stack have control over the priority of >different connections or is that a sender thing only?
I've noticed this too on my ppp link, but I never got around to asking about it. I guess all the kernel hackers are using cable-modems by now, so they haven't noticed this:-) Seriously though, is really the correct behaviour?
// André
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