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From: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: dedicating bandwidth?
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:58:46 +0200 (EET)
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In-Reply-To: <199701080933.KAA09365@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jan 8, 97 10:33:01 am"
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> > tounge just right, problem.  Or, they are not familiar enough with what
> > the operating system is already designed to do.
> Good point.

hmm...

> In this specific case, though, it is true that it is easy to
> saturate a PPP link pumping data from an Ethernet. The TCP congestion

exactly.

> Having a small amount of reserved bandwidth helps a lot in this case
> (or you can assign priorities depending on type of traffic, such as
> some version of iijppp is supposed to do, and some actually do).

since i'm on leased 57600 line (might be 115200 next week, certainly
something faster in next 6 months of time) and it's not dialup, i
use kernel ppp...

> would be no need for people hacking it :).

=)

and i certainly appreciate everyhing freebsd-dev-people are doing,
no doubt about it.

> 	Luigi


mickey