Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:50:28 +0200 From: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best DSL Router? Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20001015134404.06dc9710@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150116470.1344-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET > References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001015125534.054e8690@mail.Go2France.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>I'm just wondering if FreeBSD as a router has any traffic shaping >features dummynet or etinc bw-mgr >since most ADSL is faster downstream than upstream and when one >is uploading tradionally, it will choke the download speeds because the >uploading would take all the bandwidth for the upload pipe that it can't >get the acknowledgement packets out for the downloaded data at the same >time. ??? ADSL is full duplex. up channel does not rob/share bandwidth from down channel. You should be able to get 128 up while getting 512 down, or whatever your signalling rates are. Paradyne MVL does share 768 kbits/sec between the two channels but that is afaik unique to MVL, which isn't typical xDSL. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.0.0.25.0.20001015134404.06dc9710>