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Bandwith Throttling

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Watts

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Can anyone explain to me what this is? I am speculating it has something to do with the size of the packets being sent. How would I control this from a server connected to a LAN. General concepts only, just so I can understand...

Watts
 
You can have a T1 with 24 chans, however you are only say getting 512 speed. This is a form of chocking down the banwidth, in this case you actual use 8 chan. An other form
of controlling the bandwidth a believe is traffic-shapping
this is were you can actually decide how much bandwitdth and application is using ,for example ( voice over frame relay ). I hope this helps ... #-) Jeter@LasVegas.com The best answer I could ever give is the one to maintain my Sanity
 
Throttling is a way of pretending your link is smaller than is really is. It is a useful way of testing how your web site will look to a modem user or restricting email transfers so they don't hog your entire bandwidth and stop people surfing.
 
Jeter has one side correct but let me add a few more items. QOS ( quality of service) is where you can filter packets on type.. ie.. you can say HTTP port 80 only gets 40% of the available bandwidth. You can also let it take more if there is not any other higher priority traffic. Each packet is examined and then either passed or buffered until the router can send it out.

A DS1( and others) can throttle data flow if they start getting too many errors, bits set for discard and other reasons.

There multicast where a single data stream is sent to a "group" rather then the entire network like a normal broadcast. PIM works with this type of design.

So you can see that traffic "throttling" or "management" comes in a wide varity of flavors depending on what you are trying to accomplish and what equipment you have.

Mike S
"Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock" Wynn Catlin
 
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