Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting

[Alan Cox]

> > UDP is not flow controlled.
> 
> No, of course not, but this has *nothing* to do with UDP. The IP socket 
> itself is flow controlled, and so is the TX queue of the network driver.

It is not flow controlled

> Let me give you another example: ping -f. If what you said were true, ping -f 
> would send packets as fast as the CPU can generate into the black hole 
> called an IP raw socket, right? Well, that just doesn't happen, because 

Wrong. man ping. ping -f doesn't do what you apparently think it does.

Alan