> Similarly, I don't understand the latency issue. An application that > cares about latency will not create a large backlog.
I think the problem may be that a TCP flow will create a queue of packets, behind which all other packets queue. Thus one sees 200ms latency via 'ping'. Of course this is exactly what you would see on a real connection of the specified throttled speed (e.g. a DSL line). However it seems to surprise folks that there's a relationship between throughput and latency. They expect to be able to throttle traffic to 100Kbits, but still see 5ms latency. Without special measures that isn't going to happen. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
