On Mon, June 11, 2012 5:27 pm, Datty wrote: > Hi all > > I'm looking for some help setting up traffic shaping on my internet > connection. I have a bit of an odd setup in that I run a remote VPN server > that all of my traffic is pushed through and out on to the internet. As I > understand generally it isn't possible to shape incoming traffic but as I > have control of the VPN server which pushes the traffic to me I wondered > if > it was possible to implement something on that side? No traffic other than > the VPN tunnel goes out of my home connection. > > I'm trying to do this because I have a service running on one of my home > machines that requires around 5kbps constantly with low latency (<200ms), > but as my home connection is 750kbps it gets saturated very quickly > causing > huge spikes in latency. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could > achieve this? Generally any pointers at all would be greatly appreciated.
If VPN is the only traffic to/from your home, eg. using your internet connection and you control the VPN-server on the other side, you could limit the "upstream" of the remote server to your home. > Thanks for your time > > Oliver > -- Joost
