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A receiving host should set the receive window field of its ACK replies to advertise its free buffer space.
The sender should then limit its' sending rate to the receiver's stated receive window (rwnd).
This solves the issue in which the Network layer delivers packets faster than the application layer can process them, thus filling the receiver buffer, leading to packet loss.