[ale] Simple QoS

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Mar 9 19:36:36 EST 2004


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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