12-28-2008 02:44 PM - edited 03-06-2019 03:09 AM
How does the receiver govern the amount of data sent by the sender? How and where is flow control adjusted?
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12-29-2008 07:46 AM
The TCP flow conrol mechanism is fixed, however knowing how it works, we can influence it by how we drop (or ECN, if supported) packets, e.g. RED, police, etc. We can also "shape" traffic. Actual features vary per Cisco device.
12-29-2008 01:54 AM
Hello Said,
if you refer to TCP flow control the receiver advertises in each ACK packet to the sender the current size of its available buffers for the session
see
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/417-F01/Slides/chapter3b/sld008.htm
So the window can change over time and it is called sliding window because it can increase or decrease over time
TCP uses bytes and not packets as a reference.
the field in the TCP header is window
see
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Course/Section4/8.htm
Hope to help
Giuseppe
12-29-2008 05:04 AM
Giuseppe's post describes how the receiver, at least in TCP, informs the sender of its available buffer space. This feature is mostly an all or nothing method of adjusting flow (although there are some network devices that "spoof" this information for flow contol).
TCP flow control also relies on sender adjusting itself via "slow start" and management of its congestion window. (NB: Giuseppe's first reference also provides information about these features of TCP.)
12-29-2008 06:53 AM
So, the the TCP flow control mechanism is fixed and can not be adjusted? We have Cisco equipment. Is the above mechanism related to firewall, or router? So in both equipment the flow control can not be adjusted?
Thanks.
12-29-2008 07:46 AM
The TCP flow conrol mechanism is fixed, however knowing how it works, we can influence it by how we drop (or ECN, if supported) packets, e.g. RED, police, etc. We can also "shape" traffic. Actual features vary per Cisco device.
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