Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:13:13 +0600 | From | Anuradha Ratnaweera <> | Subject | Re: Other computers HIGHLY degrading network performance (DoS?) |
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:05:05AM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:55:16PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote: > > > > I think this is what QoS and the like are for. > > Well, we _are_ going to solve the problem using a firewall between the router > and the local area network. > > But the real problem is a different one. > > One machine begins an intensive downloading job. How can this degrade the > network performance even for ICMP packets between another machine and the > router? Notice that this can't be collitions because the download goes at > 64kbps and the local network is 100 Mbps. Something funny is going on to > stop other people's packets.
Just found out that this is _not_ a problem of the "download accelerator", but something to do with queuing algorithm of the router. Even a normal wget process or a big mail has a big impart on the network. Hopefully an iptables firewall would solve the problem.
Thanks.
Regards,
Anuradha
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