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Date:      06 Oct 2002 23:20:17 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Traffic shaping
Message-ID:  <1033912218.4051.2.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20021006132624.GA27191@rz-ewok.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
References:  <200210050655.g956t3Mp091313@lurza.secnetix.de> <006501c26d35$f6904720$1001a8c0@jennie>  <20021006132624.GA27191@rz-ewok.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

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On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 22:56, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> Limit the maximum usage of your line to about 90% to 95%. This prevents
> usage of the queue in your modem. However, this will not work if
> queueing on the remote side is the problem (bulk transfers like downloads
> come to mind); you are out of luck if the queue on the remote side is too
> long.

Actually, if you limit incoming TCP it will adapt to the correct speed.
I do this at home without hassle (except the latency in games goes up
from ~40 to ~100 but it is still acceptable)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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