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From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: dedicating bandwidth?
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At 09:58 PM 1/8/97 +0200, you wrote:
>> > tounge just right, problem.  Or, they are not familiar enough with what
>> > the operating system is already designed to do.
>> Good point.
>
>hmm...
>
>> In this specific case, though, it is true that it is easy to
>> saturate a PPP link pumping data from an Ethernet. The TCP congestion
>
>exactly.
>
>> Having a small amount of reserved bandwidth helps a lot in this case
>> (or you can assign priorities depending on type of traffic, such as
>> some version of iijppp is supposed to do, and some actually do).
>
>since i'm on leased 57600 line (might be 115200 next week, certainly
>something faster in next 6 months of time) and it's not dialup, i
>use kernel ppp...

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