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Re: VoIP stopping TCP traffic?



On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:42:21AM +0000, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> The machine is 
> connected to the internet through a 64k ISDN channel and to the LAN with 
> an ethernet realtek card.
[...]
> Any idea of what's going on?

Modems tend to have large send buffers, which cause a very large delays,
which in turn make services like ssh unusable. The cure is to combine
proper shaping with slight traffic throttling (so that the bottleneck is
on the machine, and not the modem - otherwise shaping might not work at
all).

Marcin
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