Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Relatively recent guide on TCP congestion-avoidance algo's & traffic shaping

[David]

*> **http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/scenarios.html

> At the time of writing, the link appears to be down but you should able
to access it via Google's cache.*


The site is also available here...

http://web.archive.org/web/20100727135916/http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/scenarios.html




On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 01/07/2011 01:58, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> Another factor that made me re-think my setup is the 'strange'
>> characteristics of traffic between my office and our
>> brand-spankin'-new subsidiary office 14 floors below us: SSH is very
>> nice, but any big file transfers (sftp, http, ftp, cifs,*anything*
>> biggish) will run well only for the first 10 seconds or so, before
>> slowing to a crawl (and even managed to make WinSCP complaining of 'no
>> response for 15 seconds'). But the ping's have no dropped packets at
>> all.
>>
>
> With respect to this particular syndrome, I have found the approach
> described here to be extraordinarily effective:-
>
> http://blog.edseek.com/~**jasonb/articles/traffic_**shaping/scenarios.html<http://blog.edseek.com/%7Ejasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/scenarios.html>
>
> At the time of writing, the link appears to be down but you should able to
> access it via Google's cache.
>
> Also, check out the tosfix() function in FireHOL, which demonstrates the
> above implementation (and happens to be the best iptables wrapper, imho).
> There's an ebuild in portage but I would advise that you supplement it by
> grabbing the latest instance of the "firehol.sh" script from upstream CVS.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Kerin
>
>
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