On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:24:04PM -0600, pineapplecoward wrote:
> > Just curious why the logfile shows my bandwidth limit as 2/3 of what they
> > are set to in freenet.ini.
> Iirc this is a recent hack because someone decided that the bandwidth
> limiting parameters should be interpreted as ip level, which we have
> no control over nor knowledge of, instead of as stream level which is
> what we are actually throttling. If you want ip level limiting, use
> the wonderful linux traffic shaping suite, or whatever your OS of
> choice provides. If you're happy with limiting at the stream level,
> just set it to 1.5 times the value you want it to be.

Somebody decided that it would be very nice if the limits actually
WORKED. Sticking your fingers in your ears and your head in the sand is
no better than NOT HAVING ANY LIMITING IN FREENET. And while that might
be theoretically sound, in practice it would result in significantly
fewer nodes.
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