On 7 June 2012 13:17, Adrian Kennard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 Jun 2012, at 13:12, Justin Finkelstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Good point - I hadn't thought of that. If we consider streaming video > (within the context of communications) we're then talking about 2-way live > video feeds. I imagine at this point, the bandwidth requirements would jump > rather considerably and the ability to shape/prioritise this traffic would > become more complex as (IIRC) we're not just talking about small UDP > packets any more. > > > > Am I correct in my assumptions? > > Well, some of us do not want o shape traffic at all. The packet size thing > at the bottleneck of a dal line is nice and neutral, but elsewhere we try > not to have a bottleneck.
I agree; traffic shaping is, for some people, quite undesirable. Interestingly, I hadn't even considered packet size before this discussion began, so it looks like that's a possible non-intrusive way to implement something like this.
