[30014] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS for interfaces & PPPoE Time Burst
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Jul 13 10:37:31 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Bob Biver'" <bbiver@hotmail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:38:01 -0700
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> Bob Biver: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:15 PM
> Is anyone doing traffic shaping on PPPoE circuits so that you
> can set a
> variable burst over time? The goal would be to make it
> commercially invalid
> to run a 'web' or other server on the end of a 'residential'
> grade xDSL
> circuit. Filtering is not an option seeing as everyone wants
> their personal
> web server and dialpad to work. But if after 30 seconds of
> burst to 320K up
> I shape that PPPoE circuit down to 16K, you wont want to host
> your Mp3
> server. Ideas?
Er, don't you think that this might be a violation of contract
and make your company vulnerable to liability suits? If someone
is buying a 1.1Mbps SDSL port then they contractually expect to
get that, up to the best technical limits of the branch. If they
find out that you are artificially choking that down then your
company might have a problem on its hands and even be forced to
refund some cash, not to mention contingent liabilities and
punitive damages. Just because it's a residence, doesn't mean
that they are not running a home-based busines, telecommuting, or
have some other type of SOHO operation. When folks buy xDSL they
think that they are buying bandwidth because that is what the
invoice says. This is regardless of whether it is residential of
business (BTW, there is legally no distinction here). To
deliberatly not deliver that bandwidth is fraud (selling with no
intent to deliver).
If you are not management, then you might want to check with them
before doing something so risky.
