On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 05:56 +0000, Michael Junek wrote:
All looks to be in order. In response to your question - yes, I am. I have a guest network which is limited to 2M/256k per user, with an aggregate of 8M/1M
I think you mean 1M/8M, and does this mean your setup puts an upper limit of 8 megabits per second on aggregated outbound traffic, and 1 megabyte per second on aggregated inbound traffic, whatever else it may do per user? Silly question I know - but have you ever tested this and seen conclusively that it does actually impose the limits you expect? If so, how accurately does it impose the limits? Would you expect the queue I described to put an absolute upper limit of 10K bits per second on the link - in total? I am starting to wonder if there are magic numbers, and some numbers are too small or too large and get rounded up or down behind the scenes. Maybe my problem is in specifying 10000/10000? I tried 128k/128k and saw transfer speeds of 1.7 megabytes per second. 64k/64k seemed to slow it a bit at first, but by the end of the transfer the average had still reached 1.2 megabytes per second. At 10000/10000 the average speeds were still well over 100 kilobytes per second. As I sy, it does seem to have an effect - just not much. I thought at one point that it might be packets, not bytes, but there is no way known that the packet rates are approaching 10K packets per second in either direction. Just as a sanity check I used "set bandwidth" on the router (an RB951G- 2HnD) at the other end of the link I am trying to control and it worked fine. With a bandwidth limit of 128k/128k, the test transfer was neatly limited to around 13 kilobytes per second, which is near enough. I think I might have to go back to Mike cap in hand and ask for a different router. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 GPG fingerprint: 8454 EE43 6215 B6DD 1B4D 9D8D 984D 7BA1 7378 A38D Old fingerprint: 58F8 09D4 97E4 D74A 0940 44BC 8D6D C28C 3BC9 B0CB