From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Tatam Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:50:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] 95th percentile billing Message-Id: <403F3D12.1040309@netmindz.net> List-Id: References: <40349591.30902@netmindz.net> In-Reply-To: <40349591.30902@netmindz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Stef Coene wrote: >On Saturday 21 February 2004 02:41, Roy wrote: > > >>You have good provider, >>this is very usefull, because you can manage your trafic very efectively. >>it is esay to limit trafic, to 1mbit, but you can set cburst to some very >>large nunber like 3-10 mb >> >> >That's not such a good idea. burst/cburst is for small burst. >If you use the configured cburst (so you send more packets then the ceil), you >have to wait some time to be able to reuse the cburst. The bucket with >ctokens has to rebuild and this can only if you use less bandwidth then the >ceil. > >Stef > > > How do cable modems limit ? Here in tne uk you downloads always seam to start at wirespeed and then drop to the speed your paying Can anyone who is on a burstable connection provide any example of how they allow busting for short periods -- Will Tatam ------------------------------------------------------------ Email / JID will@netmindz.net ------------------------------------------------------------ See http://www.jabber.org/ to find out more about the most advanced cross platform, open source enterprise messaging solution ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/