[LARTC] why shape incoming traffic

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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:47:12AM -0800, Don Cohen wrote:
> 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?

Try getting your mark to survive squid.

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