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

[Ow Mun Heng]

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> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 3:35 AM
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> Subject: RE: Qos/TrafficShaping(on Shorewall) Howto available for
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> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 21:08, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I updated the docs yesterday. I did mention that 
> we can perform 
> > QoS on incoming connection but that would really mean, 
> either dropping 
> > packets as they come in or severely limitting your 
> downstream bandwidth.
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> 	Since I am the ISP ;) None the less, you will drop some 
> packets in the
> download, but... As best as I know, when you don't ACK the packets to
> the sending machine, it'll slow down the transport until the ACKs keep
> up...

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??