dek@hades.uz writes,
> rate-limiting, especially on lower speed interfaces (under
> 1Mbps) is surely to cause a lot of grief to the sessions
> you're trying to limit. CAR simply discards packets that
> exceed set limits (unless you're just marking them with lower
> precedence), and when you're doing this to a relatively small
> number of streams/sessions, will cause a lot of
> retransmissions, ultimately leading to very inefficient use
> of your bandwidth (*and* it will make your traffic profile
> very jerky).
Therefore, low-speed rate-limiting (or incorrectly small bucket sizes on
the rate-limit command, which has the same effect of causing bursty
traffic flows) is possibly perfect for the original poster's (implied)
requirement -- slowing down PTP-network traffic to the point where the
users give up and go back to doing productive work :-)
-amf
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