6. Doing traffic shaping at the network edge is better than on the host
node for
The host *is* the edge of the network.
I'm sorry to have not mentioned that I consider the host nodes, or the end
nodes, are not network edge but instead something attached on the network edge.
I consider the very last hub, or the access router which the end nodes
connected to as 'the network edge'. And I'm sorry not to mention that
practically it is probably better to do traffic shaping at the service
provider network edge, for some reason of accouting, congestion control, or
required by service-level-agreement (I don't think throwing bandwidth at the
QoS issue is a good choice in the near foreseeable future, especially for the
enterprise users.).
Cheers!
Gao.