Re: Traffic Shaping
Chris Buechler <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Lee Sharp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It doesn't. The shaper can queue things in such a way that it will >> slow downloads because of TCP's congestion control mechanisms. If you >> can queue on both ends though, that's preferable. Most of the time >> that isn't an option. > > And it really isn't absolutely necessary. No, especially with faster connections, but with something as slow as a T1 the serialization delay can create a decent amount of jitter where a few large packets get into the queue ahead of high priority traffic that you can avoid if you can prioritize on the remote end.