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Re: Bandwidth configuration



On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:16, Szőts Róbert wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> My problem is the following:
>
> I have a dsl connection to the Internet, but it is assimmetric. I am
> connecting through a woody box. Therefore If someone sends a big mail to
> someone, the outging packets are make the line busy.
> When this occours, there will not be enough bandwidth for ACK-s.
> How can I tell to the linux box that the outgoing small packets have
> priority against the large smtp packets? (Nowadays I plan to change to
> kernel 2.4...)
>
> I have heard from someone using iproute, or QoS, but I have not found any
> examples.

The people who wrote the 2.4 Advanced routing guide have a script called the
wondershaper that tunes up the traffic shaping system to fix just this 
problem:

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

I don't think the script is in woody (at least, not under that name). 

John



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