Can Maxwell limit bandwidth?
Yes. Maxwell’s bandwidth limitation mechanism are quite sophisticated. Rather than using a typical token bucket queue, Maxwell takes into account several parameters, including, among others, data propagation rates, link distance, and frame encapsulation overhead. Maxwell’s approach to bandwidth limitation is to compute when the last bit of a packet should arrive at the destination’s network interface. Maxwell holds the packet until that time and then releases it. Because Maxwell generally is used in a lab environment in which Ethernet paths are virtually instantaneous, this approach yields a very good approximation of actual packet flow rates across a bandwidth limited network path.
