Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:31:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > what's the difference of rejecting packets in software, or because the
> > link can't handle them? Assume the guaranteed bandwidth is much lower
> 
> It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
> example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
> your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.

HTTP traffic is enough to simulate this, the connections are all small,
short lived, and there are a lot of them.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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