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* Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic shaping - downstream data
  @ 2012-06-12  8:58 99% ` J. Roeleveld
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From: J. Roeleveld @ 2012-06-12  8:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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




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