Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for Web-viewing

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dov Zamir [mailto:Linux at zamirfamily.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 6:55 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for
> Web-viewing
> 
> 
> On ?"', 2004-04-29 at 05:08, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't really think you can somehow Shape what your ISP sends you 
> > unless you have access to the ISP's routers etc.
> > 
> > If I am mistake, please educate me. 
> > 
> Actualy some comercial packetshaping appliances do just that. 
> They shape
> incoming and not outgoing traffic. This makes more sense for 
> most, since
> downloading is usually a bigger problem than uploading. It is done by
> dynamically changing the window size. Unfortunately, I have absalutely
> no idea how to do this.

Ah.. Yes.. IIRC, when I was re-reading and re-reading the ADSL 
bandwidth limiting howto, the author did mention about shaping
downstream bandwidth using the TCP window size.

He also noted that there isn't any OSS software that's available
to do that. If anyone has any idea, i bet a lot of ppl would be 
interested.