Subject: Re: bandwidth shaping
To: Jason R Thorpe , Yubyub bird <jonl@yubyub.net>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/11/2001 13:28:59
> > that limits the bandwidth, but it sounds like what Yubyub wanted to do
> > was affect the latency.  those are two different things.  other than
> > getting a slower machine, i don't know if anyone can do exactly what
> > it is he wants to do.
>
>I'm pretty sure altq can do all this stuff.  Take a look at the man
>pages.

hmm...you might be right.  i *suppose* all that's actually needed to
effect a transmission delay is to make sure that no packet leaves your
system before a certain time period has elapsed, which has little to
do with configured bandwidth.

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