Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:57:31 -0400 schrieb Brian J. Murrell: > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 06:48 +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> hi >> >> i'm playing with traffic shaping. trying to slowdown http uploads >> larger than 1mbyte > > Interesting. To diverge slightly OT for a bit, can I ask what the > administrative policy is behind this? i.e. what's the point of slowing > down HTTP uploads only after 1MB of transfer? > > I guess I find this interesting because I'm always of the notion that > the bandwidth is there to be used, not limited and as long as QOS > requirements (i.e. VIOP, etc.) are being met and bandwidth is being > shared equally (which it should by default) why not let the users > use/have as much as they want/need?
as I wrote - i'm just playing around right now. I made a backup of my workstation (40gb) and started uploading it to amazon s3. my internet connection was dead slow while uploading so i got the idea to slow down the upload. so no company policy here. :) but I can think of another use case: website with some larger files to download. to not disturb the "masses" just viewing plain html pages (<1mbyte) one slows down the larger downloads. IMHO as long as bandwith available with CEIL set to full they should get full speed. - Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
