The thing about Torrent traffic is that you have to identify it. If you're just doing it to your PC and already know ports numbers etc its not terribly hard, because yes tomato and most other router OS have QOS built in.
The hard part is however, that if someone else is using it on a different port and encrypting the traffic you can't really identify it readily. What this means is you have to write rules for everything. Start at the top and work your way down. Make HTTP, DNS, SSH etc have the priority, leave everything else alone in 1 big pool of low priority traffic. I think that'd be the best way to do it. You don't need to do anything with the torrent traffic, but you do need to prioritize the traffic that is important to you. Michael Gorman http://michaeljgorman.com On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is built into tomato, that is what I use. > > Chris... > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. < > roger.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any suggestions on "simple" (e.g. open source, simple config files) ways >> of de-prioritizing torrent traffic? >> >> I'm thinking that BSD's pf + ALTQ might be the easiest. Maybe drop in a >> box in transparent mode? >> >> Basically I want torrent traffic at the very bottom and only a few select >> services (ssh, dns, etc) at the absolute top. Everything else should remain >> in the middle and duke it out... >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be > continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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