On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Adam Nellemann wrote:

> I'm currently allowing (small) ACK's to go directly to my pipe, under
> the assumption that this will amount to an "effective weight" somewhat
> higher than sending them through a weight 100 queue, but perhaps this is

i dont know if it works that way. you'd be better of creating a queue with
the highest weight and then sending the acks thru that queue.

> all wrong? (If so, what then is the idea behind rules being capable of
> going straight to a pipe?)

if you dont need queues, and just want to limit bandwidth for a host, then
just use pipes without queues. it's simpler. :)

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