List Receiver wrote:
> Here's a challenge for you Shorewall gurus out there.  I have a client that 
> has just installed a two-circuit T1 connection to their office.  The T1's are 
> not bonded, in the truest sense.  Instead, the ISP maintains a Cisco router 
> that performs ECMP over the circuits.  They claim the routing metric performs 
> per-packet splitting of the data across both circuits.
> 
> This represents a challenge to me, as coming out of the Cisco router I have 
> only one Ethernet connection to the Shorewall box.  Aggregate speeds across 
> that link can be up to both lines summed, but individual sessions can only be 
> the speed of one of the circuits.
> 
> Is there any way to use traffic shaping in this environment?  The client 
> definitely needs it, but it doesn't appear to me that tc has the ability to 
> handle this scenario.
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.

Have you tried using straight-forward traffic shaping in this
environment? Did it fail? If so, how did it fail?

Let's be sure that there is a real problem here before we start trying
to solve it.

-Tom

PS -- any way that you could post with line folding -- your post is a
complete pain to reply to since each paragraph is one long line. So my
apologies for the sloppy quoting but it's too painful to prune what you
wrote.
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