From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Capouch Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 06:25:33 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] How much does it matter where the throttling is done? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/