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Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:07:15 +0200
On 23-okt-2007, at 14:52, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
I also would like to see a UDP scavenger service, for those applications that generate lots of bits but can tolerate fairly high packet losses without replacement. (VLBI, for example, can in principle live with 10% packet loss without much pain.)
Note that this is slightly different from what I've been talking about: if a user trips the traffic volume limit and is put in the lower-than-normal traffic class, that user would still be using TCP apps so very high packet loss rates would be problematic here.
So I guess this makes three traffic classes.
In this case, I suspect that a "worst effort" TOS class would be honored across domains.
If not always by choice. :-)
Current thread:
- Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Florian Weimer (Oct 21)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sam Stickland (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Bora Akyol (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Bora Akyol (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sam Stickland (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sam Stickland (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Joe Provo (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Brandon Galbraith (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? James Blessing (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 23)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 24)
- Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks? Sean Donelan (Oct 24)