On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tom Murphy <open...@pertho.net> wrote: > I had set up ALTQ on a 4.9 firewall box as a box in our network needed > its sending throttled, but I noticed that while the firewall was > throttling this machine in question, ALL connections going through the > machine were adversely affected and slow. Interactive SSH sessions had > sometimes 1-2 seconds up to 10 seconds before keystrokes showed up.
> I also noticed I had to jack qlimit up to 8000 to stop getting lots of > packets being dropped. What did you think would happen when you're queuing up over a second of packets? Dropped packets are good for you, they are the mechanism that TCP uses to know when it should step back a bit. //art
