From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:31:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1062343891.10323.12.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030831144505.GS24409@dualathlon.random>
On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 15:45, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 03:56, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > I'm pretty convinced we can't solve the problem at our end. Maybe we can
> >
> > For bursts of traffic you can't.
>
> what's the difference of rejecting packets in software, or because the
> link can't handle them? Assume the guaranteed bandwidth is much lower
It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-31 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-08-30 22:58 ` bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news) Pascal Schmidt
2003-08-30 23:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 1:05 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-08-31 1:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 2:18 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-08-31 2:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 2:56 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 14:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-31 15:43 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-31 15:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 17:06 ` Florian Weimer
2003-08-31 21:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-02 7:06 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-05 8:10 ` Florian Weimer
2003-09-05 15:35 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-09-05 15:50 ` Florian Weimer
2003-09-05 16:10 ` P
2003-09-05 16:43 ` Ricky Beam
2003-09-07 11:55 ` Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-09-07 18:41 ` Ricky Beam
2003-09-08 8:57 ` [COMPLETELY OFF-TOPIC] " Henning Schmiedehausen
2003-09-02 21:52 ` Ricky Beam
2003-09-05 8:16 ` Florian Weimer
2003-08-31 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 16:22 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 16:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 16:48 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 17:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 21:18 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 22:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 22:58 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 23:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 23:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 23:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 0:12 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-01 0:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-01 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 16:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 16:24 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-01 16:28 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 16:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 23:39 ` Roman Zippel
2003-09-01 0:09 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-01 0:20 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 22:56 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 23:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 0:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 0:25 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-01 0:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 0:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-01 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-02 7:11 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-02 7:01 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-08-31 16:23 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-31 16:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31 15:38 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-02 6:55 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-08-31 13:47 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-08-31 14:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-09-02 6:53 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-08-31 6:30 ` Jörn Engel
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[not found] ` <rdje.1sH.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-02 17:49 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-08-30 1:29 Larry McVoy
2003-08-30 15:03 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-30 16:10 ` Jörn Engel
2003-08-31 10:13 ` Toon van der Pas
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