Also, if you setup an older machine in between you can use ipchains to
change the type of service field to give interactive sessions a higher
priority than other traffic . . . it's in the ipchains-howto. Don't know
if that helps. Good luck!
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Norman Richards wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an ethernet traffic monitorring tool that
> will let me send an ICMP source quench message to the hosts involved
> in a specific connection?
>
> My problem is that my work is too cheap to buy a real internet
> connection. Our 128k ISDN was too little a year ago when we had 3
> people in the austin office. But now that we have about 12 people in
> the office, it is ridiculous. Often times someone will do a big FTP
> or download off of the web and take up the majority of the bandwidth
> available. Interactive use becomes painful at that point.
>
> What I would like to do at that point is to be able to run a traffic
> monitoring tool (iptraf, for example) to locate the connection(s) that
> are hogging the bandwidth and source quench them so they will back off
> and not send so quickly. (sadly, our ISDN router does not seem to be
> able to send these and the company is not willing to put another
> router in the link)
>
> Of course, I do not know the lower level protocols so I do not know
> if this is even a reasonable thing to do. But, assuming it is, does
> anyone know how to do it? Perhaps there is a better way to handle the
> situation? (the ultimate solution is to buy more bandwidth, but I do
> not see that happening any time soon no matter how loudly we complain)
>
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