Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Alan Cox
2003-08-31T15:32:25Z

On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 15:45, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 03:56, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > I'm pretty convinced we can't solve the problem at our end. Maybe we can
> >
> > For bursts of traffic you can't.
>
> what's the difference of rejecting packets in software, or because the
> link can't handle them? Assume the guaranteed bandwidth is much lower

It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.