Welcome to 1997. ;-D Traffic shaping does take a huge difference, but there are many alternatives to frottle. FreeBSD Dummynet, Linux CBQ, YDI BCU, ETInc, Allot, Packateer, Mikrotik, Cisco rate-limit, etc etc etc.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Shawn Mitchell wrote: > I haven't seen anyone mention this, so I'm going to go ahead and announce it > on here... > > > http://frottle.sourceforge.net/ > > > Go check it out. I've been playing with it for a little while, and it's > actually made a large diff on stuff. > > >From their site: > > "Frottle (Freenet throttle) is an open source GNU GPL project to control > traffic on wireless networks. Such control eliminates the common hidden-node > effect even on large scale wireless networks. Frottle is currently only > available for Linux wireless gateways using iptables firewalls, with plans > to develop a windows client in the future. > > Frottle works by scheduling the traffic of each client, using a master node > to co-ordinate actions. This eliminates collisions, and prevents clients > with stronger signals from receiving bandwidth bias. > > Frottle has been developed and tested on the large community wireless > network of WaFreeNet. We have found running frottle has given us a > significant improvment in the network usability. Testing results will be > documented here as time permits." > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges > <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
