[ale] Simple QoS

James Sumners james at sumners.ath.cx
Tue Mar 9 20:58:10 EST 2004


Cool.

On 09 Mar 2004 20:06:57 -0500
Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I ran it after and I see an immediate difference.
> 
> Works great!
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 19:50, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> > I have no idea. I haven't had a chance to mess with it myself; I just
> > know that it is designed for home broadband connections that are easily
> > affected by uploading. I really need to start working on it though,
> > playing games and getting lag in the middle because your room mates
> > start uploading stuff is annoying.
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:34:44PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > should I run the shaping rules before or after my iptables rules for
> > > firewall and masq?
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 18:58, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> > > > http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:47:02PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to setup a simple QoS rule that will limit my SMTP traffic
> > > > > to 10% of total bandwidth.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Here is the problem.  I have a 256k uplink.  When I send mail with
> > > > > attachments it can use all of the bandwidth.  What I would like to do
> > > > > is limit SMTP traffic out to max out at 10% of the total uplink speed.
> > > > >  I
> > > > > do not want to reserve any bandwidth.  I just want to limit the amount
> > > > > that can be consumed. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone have a quick and easy way to do this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Chris
> > > > > 
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