Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:58:46 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: bminazzi@w3page.com, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dedicating bandwidth? Message-ID: <199701081958.VAA18518@shadows.aeon.net> In-Reply-To: <199701080933.KAA09365@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jan 8, 97 10:33:01 am"
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> > tounge just right, problem. Or, they are not familiar enough with what > > the operating system is already designed to do. > Good point. hmm... > In this specific case, though, it is true that it is easy to > saturate a PPP link pumping data from an Ethernet. The TCP congestion exactly. > Having a small amount of reserved bandwidth helps a lot in this case > (or you can assign priorities depending on type of traffic, such as > some version of iijppp is supposed to do, and some actually do). since i'm on leased 57600 line (might be 115200 next week, certainly something faster in next 6 months of time) and it's not dialup, i use kernel ppp... > would be no need for people hacking it :). =) and i certainly appreciate everyhing freebsd-dev-people are doing, no doubt about it. > Luigi mickey
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