[j-nsp] policer useless
Blaz Zupan
blaz@inlimbo.org
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:38:05 +0200 (MET DST)
> I think the problem that Blaz is seeing has to do with the windows size
> and the burst-size being used. I ran into this problem before and if I
> recall recorrectly, I was using a small burst burst-size close to the MTU
> which I think was 1500 which gave me poor results. Noticing the window size
> being requested from the PC, what was occuring was that it was allowing the
> traffic to burst and then it would drop it. It would then renegotiate the
> window size and would have to retransmit a lot of traffic over again. This
> cause the performance to be very poor. My solution was to increase the
> burst-size to atleast 10x the MTU to get the results that I was looking for,
> otherwise, I would see the same issues Blaz is seeing. My 2 cents.
Actually, I tried with the burst-size set to 15000 (10x the MTU), 1m and some
other settings, but even with a very high burst-size (equaly to the
bandwidth-limit, for example), the result is not what I would expect.