The agent The program that interacts with the rest of Merkato on behalf of buyers and sellers. Buyers can acquire bandwidth The amount of data transmitted or received per unit of time. When we refer to acquiring or selling bandwidth, we mean the amount of information that can be sent over a connection at one time, at the allowed speed, without packet loss or excessive delay. Bandwidth is measured in bits-per-second. by configuring their agents to offer the price they are willing to pay for a range of available quantity, or use their agent to request a quote for a fixed-price bandwidth reservation. Sellers configure their agents with a quantity of bandwidth for sale and a minimum price they are willing to accept for that quantity. window consists of smaller sub-windows, each of which can be displayed or closed as necessary. By default, windows are stacked vertically in the agent window, as shown below.
Each time you select a window for viewing it appears beneath the previously activated window. To close a window, either click the close-box tab at the upper right hand corner of the window (r), or de-select the window in the pull-down menu-bar lists. The window closes and the other windows fill in the spot it occupied.
To freely drag boxes within the agent window, de-select
the Stack (
) icon or go to the View pull-down menu and de-select
Stack.
To resize the agent window to exactly match the windows
displayed, click the Pack icon (
) or select
Pack from the View pull-down menu.