You cannot regulate inbound traffic. You regulate outbound traffic at the
ISP end, and Linux 2.1.x can do exactly that, you can feed all syn frames
down a different CBQ class (even with its own routing table 8))
> Other hosts on this switched network were able to do traffic with just a
> slight bit of lag as they passed through the boundary router. Hosts on
> the same segment as the target were unable to establish or maintain flow
> of a current session with the target.
Ok that answers that question
> echo reply. I did not measure the performance of UDP. TCP connections
> showed up as the squeakiest wheel.
TCP will suffer the most on packet drops. Also if large frames are what
starts to suffer
> The ssh connections were all inside the local network. All other
> connections from and to the local network acted completely normal.
Ok. In which case Im not sure why you saw stalling.
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