On Wednesday 05 February 2003 22:28, Tomas Bonnedahl wrote: > well, if tcp throttles down at the point where packets are dropped is of > course good, but still, when a download is peaking at the maximum speed > minus a couple kbits, the delay is terrible, that's what i want to change. > any idea? You can give the download 98% of the link so there is always 2% available for something else. It also helps to throttle down _all_ incoming bandwidth to 99% of your link so _you_ are shaping and not your router. Stef > > regards, > > tomas bonnedahl > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:13:27PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:44, Tomas Bonnedahl wrote: > > > to get most out of qos in general, would the best thing be to set up > > > qos on both ends of a bottleneck with both ingress and egress > > > filtering? the reason for asking is because we have a 2mbit connection > > > with egress filtering qos, the problem is that we experience most > > > downloads compared to uploades and therefor the egress filtering doesnt > > > provide much help. > > > > > > what we could do is to get ingress filtering on our side here, but i > > > dont know how much that would help really, the data has already passed > > > the bottleneck in the path. so, my question, would i experience any > > > different delay if adding ingress filtering? > > > > Yes. A tcp connection will throttle down if you drop packets. But this > > is not the same as egress shaping. > > > > > it is a 2mbit fiber stub network which looks pretty much like this: > > > > > > lan - router - fw - isp - internet > > > > > > the egress qos is at the moment at the router which pretty much says > > > "prioritize interactive sessions". > > > > > > > > > since the filtering for qos is rather simple, just telnet/ssh to a > > > certain host, should i contact my isp and ask them to set some egress > > > qos going to our network on the cisco router that is at their place? > > > btw, anyone know how good the qos is on cisco 2600? > > > > I have no idea how the qos works on cisco router. > > Just give it a try and se what happens. > > > > Stef > > > > -- > > > > stef.coene@docum.org > > "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" > > http://www.docum.org/ > > #lartc @ irc.oftc.net > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
