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From: Thomas Sparrevohn <staff@kyklopen.ping.dk>
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To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Limiting bandwidth on a socket? (SO_RCVBUF?)
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, dennis wrote:
> 
> They're not real...Linux has what they call a "shaper", but its almost totally
> bogus. Calling anything that you are talking about a "bandwidth limiter" is
> inaccurate anyway.......its really a throughput limiter....the bandwidth is
> always the same....
> 
> 

Not if we are talking ATM. It would actually be nice QoS and 
traffic descriptors for a specific socket.

Regards 
   Thomas