On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bob Miller wrote: [snip] > Does anyone here have any experience with traffic shaping or QoS? Any > good tools or books to recommend? At this point, I don't have any > idea which traffic to prioritize, except that it should be whatever > I'm personally waiting for. (-: > > I've read read the HOWTO's. I need more of a WHATTO or WHYTO. [snip]
I've done it, and it was a major PITA, though it has been many years, so maybe the support has improved. At the time the HOWTO's and assorted postings by various people were all that was available, the information was often incomplete or wrong, and the code in various kernel versions was often broken. I was load balancing a dual 56k feed at the time and prioritizing based on what I was "personally waiting for", I used schemes like which system the request originated from (my workstation got priority), and what protocol was being used and which feed I was routing through, FTP was assumed to be low priority since it was used for bulk downloads, where web requests were high priority since it was presumably me browsing, also, some hosts that were commonly accessed received higher/lower priority based on how they were typically used. Today doing things like this would be a little more complicated since large downloads often are done using http and my internal network layout has been consolidated, but I stopped using QOS because I now have a much bigger pipe and it isn't worth the time. The place that was the most help to me was: http://lartc.org/ though since I haven't played with it in quite a while, there may be better choices out there today, if you're lucky, maybe someone has created a nice GUI front end by now :-) FWIW. Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech Research Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Custom Software Development - | Embedded Systems, Real-time, Device Drivers Phone: (800) 467-5820 | Networking, Scientific & Engineering Applications or: (541) 929-4089 | www.deatech.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
