> -----Original Message----- > From: Homer [mailto:hparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:58 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for > Web-viewing > > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > -----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. > > Cisco??!? I'm a little ISP and can hardly afford to > spell Cisco, let > alone buy them.. I've got an old P166 handling it all for me... Moves > the packets nicely, though I'm going to upgrade it soon, as I > need some > of the newer QOS that tc provides.... oh.. can you tell a bit more on how you set up the QoS in the sense that which client gets what sort of allowed bandwidth? Cause, I've mentioned already that from what I read, I can only successfully control the upload and not the download. Say my pipe is 1.5Mbit and I want to separate that into 256kbps/384kbps and 512kbps on different clients. How would you write the tc rules??
