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I've used tc on my openwrt (Linksys!) firewall for years. A network genius friend helped set it up. Why are there no consumer firewalls with great defaults for
by herf 14y ago
I've used tc on my openwrt (Linksys!) firewall for years. A network genius friend helped set it up.
Why are there no consumer firewalls with great defaults for this? How fantastic in the era of cloud storage and network backup to have long-running uploads not clobber normal traffic.
- ajb 14y agoProbably because most consumer 'infrastructure' devices have razor-thin margins. This has two consequences: the vendor doesn't spend any time tweaking it, and second, the CPU is too puny to run all the packets through; they go instead through a hardware packet accelerator. It may be able to do the same thing, but not by configuring 'tc'. This is also why openwrt only runs sensibly (if at all) on the more expensive boxes.