This new protocol uses packet latency based throttling instead of the packet loss based throttling of TCP.
I don't think the article documents any details. Maybe I missed a link.
I don't think the article documents any details. Maybe I missed a link.
So my question is, why wouldn't you get the same effect by running BT on top of a network stack using Vegas?
Someone flash the tptacek signal!
You probably would, but Windows doesn't support Vegas.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/p2pi/current/msg00052.h...
If you assume that your own uplink is the only bottleneck to be dealt with (say you are serving torrents over a DSL line) then this is reasonable, but I don't think I'd want to yield to all TCP users everywhere with all of my outgoing traffic.
There are also some scary comments in the notes from before it was rolled into the kernel, like the code doesn't handle route changes.
I can see why a vendor would choose something over which they have control.