[Bloat] Does it makes sense to shape traffic with 16Kbit/s up and 16Kbit/s down?

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 4 May, 2020, at 6:47 pm, Richard Fröhning <misanthropos at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I have a VPN provider which support lzo-compression. If I were to use
> VPN through the 16Kbps it could squeeze out some bytes.
> 
> I guess in that case I shape the tunX interface, right?
> 
> Would the MTU setting be on the usb0 device and/or the tunX?

You should set the qdisc and those options on the *physical* device, not the one that carries your uncompressed data.  Don't forget to set up ingress shaping as well as egress.

 - Jonathan Morton