hi randy,
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:55 +0300, Randy Wallace wrote:
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I have no way of knowing if our service provider
uses SCPS, HughesNet is a maze of customer support personnel
who don't know what a router is ;)
this is really critical to try to do any shaping ... many indoor units
have
I've set up Traffic Shaping on a Linux Router.
Using HTB with SFQ, i'm trying to slow down
heavy downloading for 20 subscribers over
a 2048 kbit downlink. I'm classifying internet related
traffic using iptables marking.
bri0 is my local lan bridge, receiving egress traffic destined for
Shaping on satellite can be a bad idea. Depends on who your provider is.
Some satellite providers use SCPS http://www.scps.org/ as a means to
increase performance. Simply put if you start shaping and drop ACK's you
will end up with connections hangs.
I am really surprised we do not hear more
Well, so far as I can tell, there have not been any major
problems with dropped ACK's. Our biggest gain, at least in
the last 36 hours, is that during peak hours, subscribers have
not been able to download at as high a rate as they could before.
That, and when the subscribers who only wish to
