Greg Stark wrote:
Jason Boxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 23:33, Greg Stark wrote:
Well ultimately all shaping works by dropping packets. Merely delaying
transmission isn't going to slow down anything in the long run, just
increase the pipeline. You can delay and/or drop
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 23:33, Greg Stark wrote:
Damion de Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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because you can't shape inbound traffic. Shaping works by delaying the
transmission, and you can't delay packets that haven't arrived yet.
Ingress policing just drops packets, and hopes the
Jason Boxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 23:33, Greg Stark wrote:
Well ultimately all shaping works by dropping packets. Merely delaying
transmission isn't going to slow down anything in the long run, just
increase the pipeline. You can delay and/or drop them after
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:03, Greg Stark wrote:
Damion de Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
because you can't shape inbound traffic. Shaping works by delaying the
transmission, and you can't delay packets that haven't arrived yet. Ingress
policing just drops packets, and hopes the sender
Sanjay Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won´t the
sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate?
no.
I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the protocol that
speeds or slows the transmission.
yes.
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:09, Greg Stark wrote:
Sanjay Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry to interrupt the flow, especially being a newbie, but won´t the
sender just retransmit the dropped packets at the same rate?
no.
I am not so thorogh with TCP/IP, but is there something in the
Damion de Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can create different ingress policers that only match specific ports, and
give them different priorities, but that still won't work as well as using IMQ,
or if your box is a gateway (and you are only shaping traffic going through it),
then you can
Greg,
For some reason that hadn't occurred to me. That should work just fine. I
guess I should mark the packets in iptables to avoid throttling traffic from
gateway itself, or does match see the external ip?
The only (common) time you need to use iptables to mark traffic, is when you're using
Damion de Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greg,
For some reason that hadn't occurred to me. That should work just fine. I
guess I should mark the packets in iptables to avoid throttling traffic from
gateway itself, or does match see the external ip?
The only (common) time you need to use
