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SubjectRe: 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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