On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:59:07PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'd urge people who are serious about bandwidth shaping to look into > > > their operating system's capabilities instead of relying on the > > > applications to do the right thing. The OS is usually far more > > > reliable in this area. > > The OS is operating at the wrong level. TCP cannot be shaped without > > cooperation from the other end at a higher level than TCP. > > And the bandwidth shaping currently in Fred is better? > > The advantage of packet scheduling at the OS is that you can take > other network streams into account. Giving webbrowsing priority over > freenet is impossible to implement inside Fred's box. The disadvantage is that it can't possibly work because TCP does not provide a way beyond the most crude imaginable to tell the other end to use a given bandwidth. > > -- > Robbe
-- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/
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