On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:00 -0400, Payal Rathod wrote: > Hello, > I am trying wondershaper-1.1a on a friend's pppoe connection on her > Linux box. > There are a few things I don't understand. > 1. She has pppoe connection so should DEV=eth0 or DEV=ppp0 ? Frankly I can't remember. My home box is not with me right now. Why don't you give each a shot? My bet is it's ppp0. (90% sure) > 2. Her ISP just says on her payment bill that the speed is 128kbps, but > doesn't mention any downlink/uplink speed, so in that case what should > be, > DOWNLINK= and UPLINK= ? You can try some online bandwith tests. I like the ones at nyc.speakeasy.net bear in mind that 128 may mean both up and dn speed (symmetrical) You may have to play with the numbers a bit to get it right. > 3. She uses the net in her small office and people mostly to browse the > net, send emails > sometimes ftp data out and sometimes ssh to other servers to trouble > shoot their > programs. In such a case is wondershaper helpful? Or is it not required > at all? Of course it is useful. This is definitely useful to make non-interactive activity such as FTP slower then interactive (SSH) activities so not to feel the lag. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:16:40 up 8 days, 18:28, 5 users, load average: 0.42, 0.30, 0.26 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
