From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin A. Brown" Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:01:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] most out of qos 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 : > I'd suggest that Tomas throttles his bandwidth on transmit to the internal : > network. It is a router, so very little traffic will be initiated from : > the router itself. : > Why not perform traffic control on packets transmitted to the Internet on : > the outward facing NIC. : > Then perform traffic control on packets received from the Internet on the : > inward facing NIC. : > What's wrong with this? : Euh nothing :) : But you have the same problem. You are controlling already received data. So : you can only hope that the other end of the link stops sending data if you : drop packets. Well, slap me with a wet fish! That's pretty obvious. (Martin, neophyte with traffic control, returns to routing.) Thanks, Stef, -Martin -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/