Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31T16:36:34Z

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:23:37AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:31:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> HTTP traffic is enough to simulate this, the connections are all small,
> short lived, and there are a lot of them.

it's much harder to throttle http, but it should work too. you may need
bigger margin due the higher percentage of unthrottable packets like
syns.

Andrea