From: Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] IMQ problems :-(
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:43:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04010621433300.00693@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045377672.20040104004813@yahoo.co.uk>
On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:33 pm, Roy wrote:
> > I have read about people having lots of problems with IMQ. So I just
>
> wanted to
>
> > try it and see how stable it is on my box. I gather it could actually
> > be problems with the Kernel and not the IMQ code??
>
> That is possible but prpbably not because of bug in kernel I
> as I think it is because kernel handles local trafic diferently than
> forwarded
>
> so you cant use imq to shape trafic generated by server
> I am comtinuing development of imq abd I face this problem most of the
> time.
Do you mean because it crashes ?
I seem to be able to shape upstream from my gateway and forward OK using
IMQ - I know I don't really need it for up because I could mark, and the
nat patch only works down, but I've been testing the jdg script recently
and haven't managed a crash yet. I am only on a home network that gets
shutdown after 18 hours, though.
>
> > I think that sounds even more messy :-)
> > I only wanted to ingress shape with IMQ to ensure that I don't drop
> > UDP or small TCP ACK packets for upload streams. I guess I will just
> > give up on the idea and using ingress policing... Its not so important
> > anyway
>
> as my
>
> > DSL connection is very asymetric (2mbit D/L; 256kbit U/L) and upload
> > shaping is more important.
>
> if only want to shape incoming trafic probably you can use imq quite
> safely,
>
> anyway as I see you dont need it at all you can easily shape all uploads
> anyway
> and since your download speed is high enough you dont need to worry
> about it.
>
> however imq can be usefull to control trafic so that you can download
> with kaza and browse web or play game without high latency.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-04 0:48 [LARTC] IMQ problems :-( Robert Walker
2004-01-04 2:12 ` Roy
2004-01-04 15:47 ` Robert Walker
2004-01-04 17:33 ` Roy
2004-01-06 21:43 ` Andy Furniss [this message]
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