[c-nsp] Needs some help with QOS

[Tim Franklin]

On Tue, March 24, 2009 12:12 pm, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote:

> What is your upstream connection? If you're using PPPoE, you won't be able
> to do any output queuing, as the outbound LAN interface is never saturated
> (the bottleneck is experienced by the DSL modem).

If you know what your upstream bandwidth is, you can wrap a shaper around
the queueing policy to provide the back-pressure.  Useful for all sorts of
'ethernet hand-off' type services where the circuit provider has some
other device upstream of your router.

Regards,
Tim.