Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:36:28 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: torrent client traffic shaping question Message-ID: <20090312133628.22640ad7@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090312152340.S71460@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20090311175001.21BD41065792@hub.freebsd.org> <20090312152340.S71460@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:37 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:23 +0000 RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> > > A traffic shaper could efficiently regulate downloads by proxying > > TCP. And even though PF does some limited TCP proxying, > > unfortunately dummynet and altq work at the IP level. > > I don't know why you say 'unfortunately' here? Because tcp is best controlled at the tcp-level You could get smoother, lower-latency transfers, and you're not dropping any packets that have already passed through the ISP bottleneck.
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