Patent ID: 8406133

Claim:
A method of controlling packet flow at a first network in an internetwork of plural networks, the method comprising: initiating a recurring time interval; establishing a plurality of packet queues in the first network, each of said packet queues being associated with a respective other network of the internetwork; establishing a respective packet rate value for each of the other networks; when the recurring time interval elapses, removing a number of packets from the packet queue associated with a given one of the other networks, the number of packets being no greater than the packet rate value associated with that given one of the other networks; sending the removed packets to at least one node in the given one of the other networks; detecting packets that are successfully received at a plurality of nodes on the given network; calculating a ratio based on a number of detected packets that are successfully received at the plurality of nodes on the given network; comparing the ratio to a threshold value; and adjusting the packet rate value for the given network, based on the comparison.