> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Homer > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:53 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for > Web-viewing > > > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 21:19, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Hey.. Since you're the ISP.. May I ask you a question? > > > > Say I'm with ISP X, and I'm subscribed to their 384/128k package. > > They say it's best effort. I want to know, how do they Cap > the connection > > to the said 384k. > > > > What sort of trafficshaping etc do they do? TCP Window shaping? > > Packet dropping?? ACKs?? > > I've got an old RH 6.x box using cbq to do the shaping > ;) There are > commercial packages, but since I'm a little fish in a big sea, I opted > to roll my own... It seems to work rather well, though it's time to > replace that box, it's been running 4 years now... I like some of the > QOS I can do with the newer kernels.. That method of capping? Hmm.. so it would seem that even the ISPs do this. I thought they used stuffs from cisco etc.
