* sven falempin <sven.falem...@gmail.com> [2014-06-02 22:11]: > I just read info about <Source quench> icmp packet and those are > apparently armful but i did not find any > measurement or 'proof' of that.
dunno about yours (but have a strong suspicion) - my icmp source quench packets don't have arms. > Maybe i slide a bit of topic, i saw openBSD has <Explicit Congestion > Notification> is there a relationship between the dropped packet and > this ? (i do not completly understand ECN yet) > > Shaping on ingress is (in most case) a waste of time, but shaping on > egress will be if the previous hop flood with udp or non TCP data, i > wonder why this <Source quench> is so poor and abandoned. I don't know what to say about this really... but I feel I have to, since others might think it made sense in any way. The only advice I can really give here: get a book on tcp/ip basics. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/