On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mike Bird wrote: > packets aren't lost. This doesn't work for UDP and ICMP and works poorly > for varying loads.
Correct. But it works wonderfully for long-lived TCP connections, and if you are using ftp/http (and not, say, bittorrent) to get your ISOs, it will help you. That said, there is a very undocumented way to *queue* incoming traffic. It used to require that hideous buggy IMQ device (but at least that one is copiously documented!), but nowadays you can do it differently (something to do with dummy devices?) I think. You might want to look that up. That allows one to do real shaping on incoming, without dropping packets. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]