On 2009-12-09, Bryan S. Leaman <lea...@bitbytes.com> wrote:
> Andres Salazar wrote:
>> Thank you for your suggestions.. however in this particular case I
>> still can download at 615Kbytes/sec .. at least now I can download at
>> a lesser rate with the following:
>>
>> altq on $t_externa bandwidth 200Kb hfsc queue { bulk, ack }
>> queue ack bandwidth 20% priority 2 qlimit 500 hfsc (realtime 40Kb
>> upperlimit 40Kb)
>> queue bulk bandwidth 80% priority 1 qlimit 500 hfsc (realtime 120Kb
>> upperlimit 120Kb default)
>>
>>
>> But I still cannot accomplish what I need
> If you want to attempt to throttle inbound traffic, then you will need
> to apply the queue to the *inside* interface, since queuing only works
> for traffic leaving an interface. So the traffic leaving the inside
> interface toward the internal LAN would be the inbound traffic. What
> you have currently is being applied to outbound traffic.
yes, that's exactly it.
>> However everytime I try, it just always ends up using the entire link.
>> If I modify it to 1Kb , it ends up using around 80Kilobytes/sec .
and this "works" because you're throttling the acks, so the sender slows down.
