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Norberto Bensa wrote: |
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> Nope. "fixed rate limiting" is not the answer. You need QoS at the |
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> router level, but if it doesn't support it, you'll need to change how |
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> your Linux box talks and listen to internet packages. That's what I |
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> said -more or less- on my first reply. |
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I'm a believer in doing things the easiest way... and while I can see |
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that manually specifying limits on bandwidth use from Linux on an |
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explicit address-range basis would "work" - it is not an appealing approach. |
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> Let's make an experiment: |
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> 1. Terminate all downloads and activity on the internet. |
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> 2. Restart your bind (so it flushes its cache) |
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> 3. in XP1 download something huge (an ISO image) from one souce in the |
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> internet and wait 'til it is at full speed (does it go up to 0.5Mb??) |
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> 4. in XP2 start to ping different sources. Does XP2 lost packets? |
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If I do my downloading from XP (using Linux as my nameserver) everything |
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works perfectly. My downloads max-out my ADSL connection - and not only |
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can I ping other hosts concurrently, but I can surf the web and |
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bandwidth is shared fairly between competing applications. |
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My router is a "Netgear Wireless ADSL Firewall Router" - it seems pretty |
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common... and I've not found other people moaning that it has |
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problems... For me, it only has problems when accessed from my Linux box. |
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