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Because if it's not in the OS, people are going to cheat more often on congestion control to prioritize their own streams. It's a tragedy of the commons. It's o
by quotemstr 5y ago
Because if it's not in the OS, people are going to cheat more often on congestion control to prioritize their own streams. It's a tragedy of the commons. It's only because TCP is ossified and usually in the kernel that we haven't seen a race to the bottom already.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoI'm pretty sure that's not how congestion control works... My ISP doesn't honor my congestion control flags. Whatever congestion control I set up ONLY changes things on my side of the ISP connection. And yes, within my LAN, I definitely can prioritize various streams.
- quotemstr 5y agoWhy do you think it is that we do congestion control at all? Why doesn't every program spam UDP packets as fast as it can write them to the NIC?