What I would like to know is if there are some way to change the packet or frame sizes of the traffic that passes through this type of system. If I am understand correctly this will also help with the bandwidth, maybe not on throughput but definitely on continues throughput if the data line is running in the 99% utilization.
We had a demo on our data line with a system called packeteer, and it seems
as if this product intercepts the packet and changes the packet or frame
size and therefore the traffic will not hog the bandwidth that easily. This
how ever is a very expensive product and if one can do it on Linux why not.
I'm not quite sure what you are asking for, but perhaps you mean fragmenting packets so that they are smaller (ie 5 small packets rather than 1 large one?)
The trick here is either to change every machine to have a lower MTU in your office (can be tedious), or look at using "MSS clamping". This is something that you can do in iptables. Search google, and I think in the LARTC for more details. There are other tricks you can do with MTU
Packeteer is perhaps the premier product out there, but you should be able to do 90% of the same things with Linux, and for many cases far *more* than with packeteer. I think there are a few people who will offer paid support as well, so you are not necessarily disadvantaged here either.
Out of curiousity, what does a packeteer box set you back these days? My old firm was looking at buying one, I was thinking about biding against them...
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