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

[Homer]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:53 AM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > 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.

	Cisco??!? I'm a little ISP and can hardly afford to spell Cisco, let
alone buy them.. I've got an old P166 handling it all for me... Moves
the packets nicely, though I'm going to upgrade it soon, as I need some
of the newer QOS that tc provides.... 

-- 
Homer <hparker at homershut.net>