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

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 22:19, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 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??

My ISP does the traffic shaping on the ATM side of the DSL.  So it's at the 
cell level below IP.  ATM is considerably more flexible in this regard.
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Lamar Owen
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