Updates using idle bandwidth

[Benny Amorsen]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> writes:

> But when you are actually dropping packets, it is way to late to be
> thinking about using only idle bandwidth - you've already backed
> everything up past its buffer windows.

Nope, you have most likely hit Random Early Drop. If you and the
router support ECN, that will even be Random Early Detect, so you can
throttle without actually losing packets.


/Benny