I thought this was the point of tcclasses and marking packets to only use a portion of the bandwidth? I was hoping Shorewall could help me use all my bandwidth. Maybe I'm just greedy and want all the theoretically available bandwidth to myself. Alright I'll dock it 500kbit on both ends like I did back when I was using Wondershaper (so long, long ago).
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Leben [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Traffic Shaping Newbie Hi Newbie, When it comes to traffic shaping I am also a noob. But I have spotted one potential weakness... Read on. GeneralNMX wrote: > The problem I'm having now is that my > upload can be saturated enough to cause extreme latency, and I wish to > prevent that without having to rely on simply throttling back the speed. I > am a residential FiOS user with a 15/2mbit plan. > > #INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH REDIRECTED > $EXT_IF 15360kbit 2048kbit In order to be able to traffic shape, you HAVE to throttle outgoing traffic. ("Outgoing" meaning "traffic leaving the firewall machine in any direction".) In other words: The IN-BANDWITH and OUT-BANDWIDTH settings must be lower than all other limitations. Otherwise packets will be buffered, leading to latency. Try setting OUT-BANDWIDTH to, say, 1500 and work your way up from there. BR /Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
