Re: Traffic shaping

> What I'd like to hear is what motivates this problem, because there
> might be another solution that's simpler which we could suggest, but he
> himself doesn't see.

The problem is exactly what I've already stated. I have a symmetrical
connection. For example, I can get 2Mb in either direction. So I
could have two downloads at 1Mb each. Or two uploads at 1Mb each. Or
one upload and one download at 1MBps each. It doesn't matter which
direction, but my total throughput isn't going over 2Mb.

So right now, for shaping to work properly, I have to do something
like 1.5Mb for download and 0.5Mb for upload. The is really
inefficient if I have a huge upload while the download is idle,
because the upload will be capped at 0.5Mb.

I had looked into a similar solution to Dave's suggestion for PF, but
it doesn't look like its possible. So I'm going to take his advice
and persue a solution with iproute2.

Thanks.
Received on Sun Jul 23 20:54:12 2006