From: Fiach Reid [mailto:fiachreid@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:20 AM
> I'm doing a project for a small ISP in the US. They want to develop a
> system to limit bandwidth during peak times. What I was thinking of was to
> send TCP Reset packets to users consuming too much bandwidth.
If you can insert a box into the network I would use the tcp window
size to limit the bandwidth. This is the method used by some of the
commercial products (Packeteer). You can also do this with a Linux
box if a commercial product is too expensive.
Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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