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The CHOKe packet schedulerThe CHOKe packet schedulerPosted Jan 14, 2011 10:50 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: The CHOKe packet scheduler by paulj Parent article: The CHOKe packet scheduler
> Your GigE NIC will *NOT* respond to congestion at the wifi link, it'll keep blasting out packets
For sure the NIC *alone* would, but TCP (or DCCP) do NOT.
TCP is ACK-clocked on the bottleneck. Just try it! The name of this feature is "congestion avoidance", google it.
> There's no way for Linux to know just from your local link-speed what the correct size is.
ethtool eth0
> Ethernets in the past tended to be relatively homogeneous wrt segments, but these days they can be extraordinarily mismatched
It does not matter: every link needs to adjust according to its *own* speed.
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