Simon Hobson wrote: > > The next thing you need to remember is that your effective link speed > may well be very different to the sync speed of your modem/whatever. > At work we have the luxury, at a cost I might add, of an uncontended > and unlimited service (we do hosting) which measn we know exactly > what we can shove up the wire. At home, I'm on an ADSL service where > there is no guaranteed speed - the actual throughput will be lower > when others are using their connections, so I have to guess at what > max speeds (down and up) will mostly avoid me hitting restrictions > due to contention in my ISPs backhaul. In practice, I set my up and > down speed limits somewhat below the sync speed of the ADSL modem to > allow for this contention. >
The description of IN-BANDWIDTH in the Shorewall TC doc includes a procedure for attempting to find an appropriate setting for that parameter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
