[3423] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Jun 23 14:53:58 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 17:22:11 +0100 (BST)
Cc: schenk@cs.toronto.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-isp@lightning.com
In-Reply-To: <199606221944.PAA13097@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jun 22, 96 03:44:54 pm
> Any why do you call it a "shaper"? whats up with that?
Its called a traffic shaper because thas what all the world calls them and thats
what the vast amount of literature such as all the ATM work calls it.
> next week....it simulates virtually any physical speed (up the the actual
> physical speed of the media, of course) practically to the byte. It also keeps
> statisics and reports preformance on a per address or network basis over a
> user-selectable interval as well as current performance.
The question however is what percentage of additional bandwidth waste is caused
by TCP interactions with your driver. Thats probably the major item to measure
Alan
