I think you guys went a bit on a tangent here. What I am trying to do
is limit the outbound bandwidth of my services and this should be
perfectly possible as I control the output.
Also, the reason for this need is that some services use
burst-bandwidth and I have many peaks and lows throughout the day.
This means that my carrier who bills me by the 95th percentile is
having a field day. For the services that my server offers it's not
imperative that they get rid of the client in 1 second instead of 5
for example. In this sense, stretching out 1MB of traffic over 10
seconds is more beneficial towards my 95th than if I stretch it over 2
seconds for example.
Quoting Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 09:27:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave port 80 as an example but I need this configuration for
limiting other services as well.
If you have a 100mbps connection and only one client, you want him to
only use 50kbps, not the full pipe. If you have 200 clients, they
still get 50kbps each.
Is this feature that I need so complicated that it can't be
implemented easily into FreeBSD or is it that not many people need it
? It sounds quite useful to me :)
It isn't as useful as you think. I can easily generate 200 clients being only
one person. That's why the focus in bandwidth shapers lies on the type of
traffic and the origin/destination rather then the state and they divide the
bandwidth within those pipes between the states.
Secondly - bit besides the point, but not many people think about it - if you
have 100% available and limit a single person to 5%, you're more likely to
end up at the 100%, simply because it takes more time for that person to get
what he wants.
So if there's no financial/legal issues involved, it's better to get rid of
the clients as fast as possible.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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