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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