Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
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On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 15:45, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 03:56, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > I'm pretty convinced we can't solve the problem at our end.  Maybe we can
> > 
> > For bursts of traffic you can't.
> 
> what's the difference of rejecting packets in software, or because the
> link can't handle them? Assume the guaranteed bandwidth is much lower


It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.

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