From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:50:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] why shape incoming traffic 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 Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:47:12AM -0800, Don Cohen wrote: > bert hubert writes: > > > It doesn't seem very important to shape the incoming traffic that will > > > be forwarded, since the same shaping can be done at output. > > > > An important reason to be able to do incoming shaping is that you may lose > > information while routing, which doesn't help you with shaping on egress. > Isn't the usual solution to mark the packets at input and use the > marks for shaping? When is that not adequate? Try getting your mark to survive squid. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/