On 6/6/07, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:42 -0300, Marco Aurelio wrote: > use the HTB wondershaper that can be found at lartc.org Thanks for your reply. I looked at wondershaper, and I could not tell from the documentation whether it actually limited the rate of packets transmitted, and policed incoming packets, in a reliable fashion.
What do you mean by reliable fashion? The upstream is hard limited by the kernel. So it is absolutely reliable. The data people send you (downstream) you cannot control directly.
In other words, all the documentation I see is written as if it is addressing the case of a residential customer with a bandwidth-limited connection (cable modem, say), that has large queues, and arranges to shape on the box instead of on the connection's queues, allowing for better and more sensitive control.
You can use it in your environment. The wondershaper limits your traffic a bit less than the link speed, for the packets to be queued in the kernel and not in the modem (hub, switch, etc), so you can reserve some resources for the real time traffic. In your case, the modems or hubs may almost never queue. Please tell me more about the limits of the provider. You say that they bill you if you use more than 1Mbps? I mean, this is strange because they normally define a transfer quota (eg: 100GB per month) and not a bandwidth limit. And also, what services are you providing in this server?
But it still seemed (from what I read) as if it tries to keep the pipe as full as possible, merely reordering packets carefully, in which case I'm sure to lose, because I *don't want* the pipe as full as possible; I want to dribble bits out the pipe to conform to the pricing I have agreed with my ISP.
You don't keep the pipe as full as possible all the time. Only when you are sending more than the limit rate you specified in the script.
Am I missing something? Thomas
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