Bug#239502: kget: Explicitly setting the TOS field for the download connections?
Package: kget
Version: 4:3.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist
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It would be useful to be able to, as a user, set the TOS field for the TCP sockets
that KGet uses, somewhere in KGet's GUI (e.g., under Configure KGet). For instance,
I might want 'minimize monetary cost' so that a big download's interference with
other traffic is minimized, or 'maximize throughput' when I want it to complete
quickly. For reference, these can be set using setsockopt() with the socket option
IP_TOS; see ip(7) for more details.
I realize that KGet itself probably does not handle the sockets itself, and
instead goes through some abstraction layer(s) to actually handle the nitty-
gritty of setting up the connection and all of that. I realize that doing this
may cause portability problems. Don't forget that this is a wish, nothing more.
I don't necessarily expect it to be implemented, but it would be nice.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages kget depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.1-1 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcre3 4.3-4 Philip Hazel's Perl 5 Compatible R
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
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