[Systems] [IT] Bandwidth usage on bender

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:39, Giovanni Bajo<rasky at develer.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/2009 11:29 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:40:23AM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>>> However, our IPv6 traffic is being encapsulated inside an AYIYA tunnel,
>>> which looks like UDP packates to the Develer gateway.
>> How about using traffic shaping directly on bender? Or setting TOS so
>> the gateways can prioritize better?
>
> The problem is on the other side. From Develer's point of view, the
> *incoming* traffic saturates our download bandwidth, and it's unshapable
> for us; the only thing we can try is to drop random ayiyay packets when
> its bandwidth usage is above certain thresholds, but we're unsure that
> this will help: it helps with TCP because of flow control, but will it
> work for ayiya?

This may be a stupid question, but what do we need ipv6 for?

Thanks,

Tomeu