Re: [Nolug] QoS and/or netfilter/iptables bandwidth throttling

From: Andrew S. Johnson <andy_at_asjohnson.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:31:42 -0600
Message-Id: <200312202231.42042.andy@asjohnson.com>

On Saturday 20 December 2003 10:24 pm, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Saturday 20 December 2003 21:14, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> > Anybody have any experience with QoS and/or
> > netfilter/iptables bandwidth throttling? I have a
> > son who, now that we have a few PC's in the house,
> > thinks all my bandwidth are belong to him. Wrong.
> > Me thinks that with my Slackware Linux box/router
> > I can fix this. Any words of wisdom?
> >
> > Andy Johnson
>
> Yes, it can. :-)
>
> Look into wshaper, or do the iproute stuff yourself.
>
> It's fairly easy to set the P2P apps to low priority, all else follows.
>
> Of course you need the QOS stuff available in the kernel.
>
> It's very nice, for e.g., people can be downloading all manner of things from
> my webserver, but my ssh sessions are unaffected and snappy as heck no matter
> what.
>
dats wut aim takin about. Tell me moore.

Andy

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