On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a friend who is setting up an ISP co-op who's asked me for
> information on how to set up Quality of Service and packet prioritization on
> Linux (and particularly Mandrake). Sadly, I know nothing about the topic.
> 
> Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go to get me/him started in
> setting this up? In particular, we want to know how to do the following:
> 
> 1) Allow individual users a specified amount of bandwidth

Check out the Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/index.html

In particular, the section on shaping.

> 2) Prioritize types of IP packets over one another (e.g. web has higher
> priority than P2P)

Never done that specifically, but it seems to be supported using the
above HOWTO.

> 3) How to do this as easily as possible
> 

Hire someone? :)


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