Hi,
I have two transparent bridges on either side of a WAN connection. What
I''d like to do is utilize the full 1.5Mb/s on the WAN without creating
spikes and drops for my audio stream. The approach at this point has
been to limit each bridge in sending 750kbit/s through to the other
bridge so we get the 1.5Mb total.
The downside is after reserving 200kbit/s for my audio stream this
leaves only 550kbit/s download for the people at my co-lo which becomes
frustratingly slow with WinXP file sharing. I would change the balance
in favour of the co-lo in receving 700kbit/s and the LAN receiving
400kbit from the co-lo but it creates problems when I need the bandwidth
to administer the co-lo.
So is there any way for my bridges to talk to each other and dynamically
share the bandwidth to get the highest utilization?
I was thinking of changing my filters so that all of the audio goes into
one queue which has a reserved rate and all traffic go to a second queue
which doesn''t have a rate set. The only setback there is if the second
queue saturates the pipe and I get a global synchronizing of all packets
going through the WAN causing my audio to drop.
The main thing is getting the most out of the WAN when I need the
bandwidth by making my audio work without drops and my co-lo users not
feel like they''ve been thrown into the dark-ages of low-speed internet
at less-than-dial-up speeds.
