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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:02:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Sparrevohn <staff@kyklopen.ping.dk>
To:        dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting bandwidth on a socket? (SO_RCVBUF?)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961106220041.27109A-100000@kyklopen>
In-Reply-To: <199611061826.NAA22804@etinc.com>

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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
 



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