Shaper does not work on a protocol level but on a link level so because he
wants to prioritize protocols on the same link, Shaper won't do much for him
except bandwidth control on the link.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Anand Kumria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2000 10:47 AM
To: Marshall, Joshua
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Priority of network traffic
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:06:28AM +1000, Marshall, Joshua wrote:
> > It occurs to me that if you run in.telnetd at a higher
> > priority than normal
> > (when called up by inetd for example) then all the telnet
> > sessions should
> > get a better look in.
> > man nice(1).
>
> We're not running the telnet daemon on the router (It's a windoze service
> actually) - I'm just wanting to prioritise the telnet traffic between the
> two linux routers that we have.
>
> Can this be done?
Yes it can but not with IPChains. what you need to look at it Shaper;
there is some documentation in the kernel
Documentation/networking/shaper.txt
underneath wherever your kernel is stored.
Anand
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