[e2e] how to control the traffic rate below a defined value at the network node????

[John Kristoff]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:07:00 -0700
"Xiaolin Chang" <changxl at ust.hk> wrote:

> applied. Is it the only way?  Is there a way to avoid dropping and at
> the same time control flow rate at the network node?

In addition to what Greg just mentioned, boxes like the Packeteer can
also alter the TCP window advertisement sizes as segments flow through
the network.

Sally Floyd has a number of good pages on various related topics,
particularly ECN in this case:

  http://www.icir.org/floyd/ecn.html

John