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.



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