From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arvid =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=FCwe?= Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:05:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] No way to shape my traffic with p2ps Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Fre, 16 Mai 2003, David Boreham wrote: >Sounds like you need something which allows each flow to >burst for a short time, but throttles long-lived connections. He needs quite the opposite: P2P tools receive many small packets from everywhere. Those many packets clog the connection and need to be throttled BEFORE they cross the bottleneck of your uplink. (I'm aware that's not really possible on a standard DSL connection) Long-lived (TCP-) connections are good, since they can be easily shaped to any bandwidth you like. cu Arvid (also looking for the p2p-killing-silver-bullet) --=20 in bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, viel Irrtum und ein F=FCnkchen Wahrheit (Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/