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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:02:37 +0400
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd@top-consulting.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Traffic Shaping
Message-ID:  <20080402100235.GF4692@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIOCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <20080402032721.62016mpa11vodpc0@mail.top-consulting.net> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIOCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:55:58AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> It is that it's impossible to limit INCOMING bandwidth from the
> Internet.

The fact is you can limit incoming TCP with little to no packet
loss and almost any other traffic stream (including P2P) with
1-10% loss.

> In short, the bandwidth limiting code really has little
> practical value when implemented in FreeBSD that is why few do
> it.

:)



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