Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for Web-viewing

[Ow Mun Heng]

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> Subject: RE: Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for
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> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 21:19, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hey.. Since you're the ISP.. May I ask you a question?
> > 
> > Say I'm with ISP X, and I'm subscribed to their 384/128k package.
> > They say it's best effort. I want to know, how do they Cap 
> the connection
> > to the said 384k.
> > 
> > What sort of trafficshaping etc do they do? TCP Window shaping?
> > Packet dropping?? ACKs??
> 
> 	I've got an old RH 6.x box using cbq to do the shaping 
> ;) There are
> commercial packages, but since I'm a little fish in a big sea, I opted
> to roll my own... It seems to work rather well, though it's time to
> replace that box, it's been running 4 years now... I like some of the
> QOS I can do with the newer kernels..

That method of capping? Hmm.. so it would seem that even the
ISPs do this. I thought they used stuffs from cisco etc.