Re: blocking p2p traffic

[Michael Stone <mstone () mathom us>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:07:09PM -0600, James Williams wrote:
> for telephony and videoconferencing. Voice and data services over IP use udp
> packets to help reduce some of the overhead in the network. This causes
> voice and data services to be very picky and rely on very specific amounts
> of bandwidth and reliable flow control. TCP sliding window breaks that
> functionality. 

I'm confused about how tcp sliding windows break a udp service.

Mike Stone

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