I thought I would reply to the list here with an update. Lonnie has
assisted me over the last 24 hours and provided a solution with the traffic
shaper plugin. Hopefully the feature will make it into a future public
version of AstLinux.
I wanted to add how truly impressed I am with the traffic shaper plugin. It
does a really really good job of managing traffic.
I'd also add my thanks to Lonnie who has provided two enhancements for me
over the last week with very fast turn around. The AstLinux developer team
is just great.
Thanks
David
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Good question. To be clear, the traffic shaper plugin only effects traffic
> traversing the external interface, it has no effect on local to local
> traffic.
>
> Given that, you pose an interesting idea, such as adding a traffic shaper
> config variable like SHAPER_P2P_LOCAL_HOSTS="", while doable it might offend
> the purists, let me consider that. Note this would effect time sensitive
> protocols like NTP and such for that IP address.
>
> As a test, give this a try...
>
> # remove t443
> SHAPER_BULKDATA_PORTS="t20 t21 t25 t80 t110 t137:139 u137:139 t143 t465
> t515 t993 t8080"
> # add t443
> SHAPER_P2P_PORTS="t443"
>
> And describe any results (privately if you wish).
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:48 AM, David Kerr wrote:
>
> > I've been looking at the traffic shaper plugin hoping to improve
> performance of my WAN connection. I can see how to configure it to
> prioritize traffic by port number, but is there a way to have it prioritize
> by IP address?
> >
> > What I want to do is designate a particular device inside my LAN as
> having the lowest priority... any traffic to or from it will be prioritized
> lower than traffic to or from any other device on my network.
> >
> > The situation is that I have a nice shiny new ReadyNAS RAID storage box,
> and I have set it up to backup to an online backup service. There are
> gigabytes of data being uploaded, and while I can throttle the transfer rate
> in the backup s/w, I would like to tell it to use all available bandwidth.
> When I do this other computers on my network suffer noticeably... web sites
> are not as responsive. And things are particularly ugly if I try and connect
> into my LAN from outside.
> >
> > In the traffic shaper I can see how to manage bandwidth by port number...
> but unfortunately the backup s/w is connecting to port 443 at the offsite
> server, the same as any browser uses for https/ssl pages. So I can't
> prioritize it low without affecting everything else that uses https/ssl port
> 443.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
> >
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