/Anders
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, "DervishD" == DervishD wrote:
DervishD> Hi all :)
DervishD> After reading a bit of the HOWTO about traffic control
DervishD> and advanced routing, I have a doubt about the queue
DervishD> disciplines and traffic shaping.
DervishD> I've seen that, except the 'ingress' qdisc (and maybe the
DervishD> hierarchycal token bucket) all other qdisc's seem to be
DervishD> only valid for outgoing traffic, although I suppose that
DervishD> some of those qdisc could be easily applied to incoming
DervishD> traffic.
DervishD> But the key point is that: I think that the better way of
DervishD> controlling the incoming bandwidth is the Token Bucket
DervishD> Filter, just as the autor of the HOWTO says, but I think
DervishD> (may be wrong here) that the TBF is only valid for
DervishD> outgoing traffic. Moreover, if, just as the HOWTO says,
DervishD> we set up the TBF for controlling the incoming traffic
DervishD> at, lets say, 250kb/s for an ADSL access of 256kb/s, it
DervishD> won't control the outgoing traffic, since the bandwidth of
DervishD> that traffic is just 128kb/s. That is: TBF is not valid if
DervishD> applied to both incoming and outgoing traffic, and anyway
DervishD> I think that only controls the outgoing part.
DervishD> Please excuse the continous questions about this subject,
DervishD> but I'm new to this and wanting to understand a bit this
DervishD> powerful feature.
DervishD> Thanks in advance :) Raśl - To unsubscribe from this list:
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