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

Frank Solensky fsolensky at premonitia.com
Thu Oct 10 08:03:13 PDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 02:22, alok wrote:
> to all those who answered....with packeteers example...
> 
> what do u do for UDP and ICMP traffic...or basically internet traffic which
> has no flowcontrol in the upper layer?

I'm pretty sure that they didn't.  Rate-pacing was designed for longer
lived flows such as FTP connections.  I'm not even sure that provides
much of a benefit to HTML since most connections are fairly short but it
may have offered a hook into load balancing as well.
				-- Frank





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