From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 6 6:50:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DD737B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4850843E3B for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 06:50:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp404.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.244.147]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g96DoSp5005155; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:20:29 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g96Dlagh013265; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:17:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Traffic shaping From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Christoph Moench-Tegeder Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Oct 2002 23:20:17 +0930 Message-Id: <1033912218.4051.2.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 () IN_REP_TO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message