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Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Mon Jun 24 10:48:08 1996
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:59:55 -0400
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>> 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
there is no TCP interaction. TCP has nothing to do with it. Its a
physical limiter. There is 0 waste. Thats whats neat about it. Its
really the only way to do it properly.
Dennis
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