Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
Hi Guys,
Just thought I'd inject my two cents. Pro-actively adjusting the TCP
window and MSS size are much better way of doing traffic shaping. The
ack-floods you can get from hard dropping packets (a la QoS) can be
just of much of a headache as the bandwidth surge you're trying to
quell.
Doing a Packeteer-style traffic shaping in the Solaris network stack
would absolutely rock! Completely unbiased here...I wouldn't happen to
have an app that would benefit or anything... ;-)
What sort of capabilities are you looking for in shaping packets?
- introducing random packet loss?
- introducing fixed/random delays?
- imposing queue restrictions (n slots, n kB, n MB)
- imposing a bandwidth limit (n kb/s, n Mb/s)
- changing the TCP MSS (can only be changed when the connection *starts)
- changing the TCP window size
- others?
Darren
_______________________________________________
networking-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
