[Nottingham] Networking tip: Traffic shaping to minimise latency

[Peter Chang]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Martin wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Yet another one of those 'check out a man page at random' and... Yet 
> another set of first rate features already in the kernel just waiting to 
> be tweaked!

[snipped]

Look for wondershaper. It's what I use for broadband. Essentially, TCP/IP
wasn't designed for asymmetric links so you need to limit your upload and
download rates if you have any large ftp/large http/bittorrent traffic
and want good interactive responses (ssh sessions, irc, etc).

Peter



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