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Re: [tor-talk] exit node cache



On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:10:00 +0000, jiang song wrote:
...
> There is no server-side rate control, unless there is congestion inbetween,
> in this case the firefox browser client will
> delay or not send ack to the web server and so the web server will decrease
> its congestion window size due to ack timeout,
> and thus the sending rate is throttled.

Please read up on the TCP header field 'window size'. The receiver
can ACK received packets and at the same time tell the sending side
"I don't have space for more data, please hold".

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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