From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael T. Babcock" Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:45:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Re: htb-Why incoming only ? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Martin Devera wrote: > qdisc (shaper) only for outgoing data. It is generaly > believed to be dumb to throttle data when they already > reached your computer or gateway. The only reason I've ever been able to see for incoming data shaping is to reorder packets so that, for example, FINs are sent to their respective applications before SYNs (just an example) or ACKs before data. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd. (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc) http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/