Re: Bandwidth Throttling

[Rafi Sadowsky <rafi () meron openu ac il>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Benjamin Smee wrote:

> Carric Dooley wrote:
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> > Anyone know of any good bandwidth throttling apps for Linux?
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> Heya,
>
> you could try traffic shaper or look into the use of RSVP which is a
> protocol that will set certain priorities to packets thus enabling a
> kind of throttling. 
        In fact RSVP sounds very good (i have never used it
> personally) but it does need to be supported on BOTH ends.
RSVP need support in every router along the path too 

another major reason it's not yet been widely deployed in the public
internet is billing (in particular on an inter-ISP border )
also RSVP doesn't scale so well - it needs to keep track of every stream 
( at least that was the original  idea 
- unless you have a solution to aggregate streams & use DiffServ on 
the backbone ( of course ppl are working on it )

        Rafi
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