you don't know if any of the people playing on your server might have traffic shaping on their end of the connection, and they seldom have a big pipe. and they appreciate the flag already being set and not having to set it themselves with firewall rules. setting the -tos flag has no disadvantages whatsoever.
Chris Meisinger wrote:
This probably doesn't do any good unless you're 99% full on your pipe. If you're running off a cable modem, this would help. If you're in a datacenter, it probably won't do anything as there's really no bottleneck to cause a need for packet prioritization. If you're that close to full on your pipe well, you probably shouldn't be running a CS server.
Chris
Well, what good is a firewall box that supports TOS if the upstream routers throw away the flag?
If you are shifting a lot of traffic - you can use QOS to ensure your game traffic gets priority over other traffic such as HTTP + FTP - which are not affected by latency.
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