Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:51:18 -0500 | Subject | Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporti ng | From | Jan Harkes <> |
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:44:53PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: > The possibility of random dropping of packets in the kernel means that an > infinite loop on sendto() will chew up the entire machine even if you've only > got a 10Mbit/s link. This seems just wrong.
What happens if you have the 100Mbit/s side of the link and the receiver has a 9600baud dial-in modem....
The sending side needs to do throttling based on packet loss anyways, it really doesn't matter that it's lost locally or on the network or at the receiving host.
Jan
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