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Re: [LARTC] Shaping incoming VoIP traffic fails

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Subject: Re: [LARTC] Shaping incoming VoIP traffic fails
From: Daniel Musketa <Daniel@musketa.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:16:34 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:37 schrieb Larry Brigman:
> On 11/15/06, Daniel Musketa <Daniel@musketa.de> wrote:
> > I can watch traffic coming in on ppp0 with `iftop` and it never exeeds
> > 900kbit. Why could a 2000kbit headroom be not enough for clean receiving
> > of 80kbit VoIP data?
>
> Because [...] what comes first, goes out first. Also if the download 
> side can send at a higher rate than you line can handle, there
> will be a queue of packets at  the router handling the bandwidth
> limititation.

`iftop` shows me a rate of 800kbit for packets going out to the LAN on eth1. 
This is the ceil value for egress shaping from router to LAN. But I also can 
watch the download rate of packets coming in from ppp0. And it's never more 
than 900kbit, so TCP's mechanism of lowering TX speed after delayed/missing 
ACKs seems to work. To me it looks as if there wasn't a filled queue on the 
ISP's side of the line.
`tc -s ...` shows me a backlog of about 20p in the "download class".

I still can't understand why more than 2 Mbit free bandwith and an empty queue 
can cause drop outs ... mmh ...

Daniel
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