[altq 1197] Re: traffic shaping (fwd)

[Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom@pobox.com>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:46:49AM -0500, Nicolas Christin wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Scott Cruzen wrote:
> 
> > You can do the same thing that ET/BWMGR does with ALTQ, because
> > you have two interfaces in the traffic shaping device and you limit
> > outgoing on both interfaces. The effect of limiting incoming
> > (relative to your network) and outgoing traffic is the same even
> > though ALTQ is limiting only outgoing traffic relative to the
> > machine.
> 
> 	Now you lost me. What you're saying is that traffic is purely
> symmetric between any two hosts? I don't think so.
...

Think about it that way :

Machine X ------- A.Router.B ------- Machine Y

With AltQ on Router you can shape the traffic going from X to Y and
vice-versa, independently :
- for streams coming from X to Y, you shape it while it's outgoing on
interface Router.B.
- for streams coming from Y to X, you shape it while it's outgoing on
interface Router.A.

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Rémi