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On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:27 pm, Datty wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> I'm looking for some help setting up traffic shaping on my internet |
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> connection. I have a bit of an odd setup in that I run a remote VPN server |
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> that all of my traffic is pushed through and out on to the internet. As I |
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> understand generally it isn't possible to shape incoming traffic but as I |
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> have control of the VPN server which pushes the traffic to me I wondered |
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> if |
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> it was possible to implement something on that side? No traffic other than |
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> the VPN tunnel goes out of my home connection. |
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> I'm trying to do this because I have a service running on one of my home |
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> machines that requires around 5kbps constantly with low latency (<200ms), |
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> but as my home connection is 750kbps it gets saturated very quickly |
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> causing |
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> huge spikes in latency. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could |
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> achieve this? Generally any pointers at all would be greatly appreciated. |
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If VPN is the only traffic to/from your home, eg. using your internet |
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connection and you control the VPN-server on the other side, you could |
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limit the "upstream" of the remote server to your home. |
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> Thanks for your time |
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> Oliver |
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Joost |