> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 06:50 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 06:37 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote: >> >> > >> > You might try this suggestion from the Shorewall TC HOWTO: >> > >> > Note >> > >> > For fast lines, the actually download speed may be well below >> > what you specify here. If you have this problem, then follow >> the >> > bandwidth with a ":" and a burst size. The default burst is >> > 10kb, but on my 50mbit line, I specify 200kb. (50mbit:200kb). >> >> I shouldn't email before I have my morning coffee. This suggestion only >> works with simple TC. >> > > Okay -- one more time, now that I have had my coffee. > > Specifying a burst on your IN-BANDWIDTH should definitely help your > problem. I would start at 100kb. I seem to recall a user on IRC, > however, that was experiencing a similar problem. In that case, > adding a burst did not solve the issue. Don't recall which distro and > version that user was running.
Hi Tom, Thanks for your effort in the early morning :) I'll try what you suggested. The funny thing is that the RHEL4 boxes with ancient 2.6.9 kernel have always worked exactly as expected. Now on RHEL6 with kernel 2.6.32 it just doesn't do what I expect. I'll give feedback soon. Thanks, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
