Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> writes: > > I'd urge people who are serious about bandwidth shaping to look into > > their operating system's capabilities instead of relying on the > > applications to do the right thing. The OS is usually far more > > reliable in this area. > The OS is operating at the wrong level. TCP cannot be shaped without > cooperation from the other end at a higher level than TCP.
And the bandwidth shaping currently in Fred is better? The advantage of packet scheduling at the OS is that you can take other network streams into account. Giving webbrowsing priority over freenet is impossible to implement inside Fred's box. -- Robbe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.ng Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021030/a529df58/attachment.pgp>
