[LARTC] why shape incoming traffic

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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bert hubert writes:
 > > It doesn't seem very important to shape the incoming traffic that will
 > > be forwarded, since the same shaping can be done at output.
 > 
 > An important reason to be able to do incoming shaping is that you may lose
 > information while routing, which doesn't help you with shaping on egress.
Isn't the usual solution to mark the packets at input and use the
marks for shaping?  When is that not adequate?


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