Re: IP-TOS-Flags

Joerg Sommer <[email protected]> writes:

> does wwwoffle set the ip TOS flag? Maybe is 'Minimize monetary cost' set
> while fetching or 'Maximize throughput' for ftp (as requested in RFC
> 1349) set?

There are no TOS options set in WWWOFFLE for any of the types of
connection that it makes.

It is difficult to know which of the TOS options would be the best one
for WWWOFFLE to use:

minimize delay - When a user requests a page while online to make it
                 faster to respond.

maximize throughput - To make best use of the limited bandwidth
                      connection that the user has.

minimize monetary cost - One of the reasons that people use WWWOFFLE
                         is to reduce cost.  But most people will pay
                         depending on the time spent online and not on
                         the route taken by individual packets.

With a dial-up connection the best way of minimizing delay, maximizing
throughput and minimizing monetary cost for the user is to make full
use of the modem bandwidth when needed and avoid using if possible.
This is generally what WWWOFFLE does, there is no need for a TOS
option to make this happen and it is not clear that any of the options
would really help.

-- 
Andrew.
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