> pulls something down through my link it saturates my slow 128kbits/sec
> upstream link. Then all downstream performance on my fast 1.5mbits/sec
> downstream link goes to hell. 2 seconds to ping the gateway, horrible
> web page loads, etc. I'm trying to solve this problem in a simple way.
That is quite normal.
> My understanding is that this is a well known problem with assymetric
> hosts - the queue for the upload is blocking ACKs and SYNs and all
Actually it can happen with heavy traffic in both directions on any link.
IP is not a real fan of fairness.
> I promise to document how to do what I'm trying to do if someone can
> help me figure it out.
Using cbq you can potentially fair share a bit better between machines. For
a heavy http load something like thttpd (www.acme.com) or the apache
mod_bandwidth module set to limit to 96K should work a treat
Alan
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