[LARTC] How much does it matter where the throttling is done?

From: Brian Capouch <brianc@palaver.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] How much does it matter where the throttling is done?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:25:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-103820565817632@msgid-missing> (raw)

I got into a "spirited discussion" tonight about just what the upstream 
effects of traffic shaping look like.

In the case in point, a private WAN with quite a few routers connects to 
a number of Internet POPs.  In some cases, the "leaves" are three or 
four hops from the backbone source.

The central focus of the discussion was the relative harm/benefit from 
putting the traffic shaper at the point where the bandwidth hits the 
Internet, at one extreme, versus at the "last-hop" routers on the other.

I won't go into the details as I suspect there is probably a cut and 
dried answer.

And rather than proffering my own ideas, I would rather not embarrass 
myself and just ask the experts.

Thanks.

B.

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