Re: [ns] Can we set the sending rate of FTP traffic source?

[Benyuan Liu <benyuan@cs.umass.edu>]

Hi,

   FTP is based on TCP, which has congestion and flow control mechanisms
of its own. The rate of FTP is determined by the the performance
of the underlying TCP protocol in the networking setting. Right?

Ben
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Robert Yin wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Can we set the sending rate of the FTP traffic source?
> It seems that the FTP object doesn't have the sending rate parameter
> in ns-2 document. I want a greedy traffic source which can control its
> sending rate. Is there any traffic source that can do this ?
>
> Thx.
>
> Robert.
>
>