Dennis Wallberg wrote:

> I was not saying that inbound traffic shaping did not work just that it
> is not sane to use inbound shaping when you have a xDSL/cable I-net
> connection. The reason is simple, you don’t have anything to do with
> your inbound traffic unless you are ISP... limiting inbound traffic will
> not achieve anything unless you have control of the edge routers which
> you normally don’t.

Unless... [wait for it]...

Your ISP charges you if your bandwidth usage goes above some 
threshold.  For example, AT&T sells bandwidth in their co-lo center in 
1 Mbps increments.  We're buying 2 Mbps in and out.  They keep a 
sliding 5 minute accounting window, and if 95% of our traffic exceeds 
2 Mbps during that 5 minutes, we get hit with a serious penalty.

Inbound shaping prevents that from happening.  We up our purchased 
bandwidth (and the m0n0wall pipe size) when the customers get too 
inconvenienced.


          -crl
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