Philip... Not sure that I understand why you object so strongly... why is it not okay to designate a specific host IP as being low priority when it is okay to designate by port number?
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Philip Prindeville < [email protected]> wrote: > Classification and shaping are separate functions, and as such Arno and I > agree these should be separate plugins. > > If Lonnie wants to combine them in Astlinux then that's his prerogative, > but making this change upstream to my plugin without asking me is egregious > and not consistent with ownership etiquette in Open Source projects. > > David's best chance of a solution is to RE-MARK the packets, so they are > handled properly throughout the network, not just while transiting the > Astlinux firewall. > > Don't disagree... would indeed be useful if the source application would let me indicate the priority I want to attribute to the traffic. Of course, that would be an advanced option. > Also, the best place to MARK them is on the source host (based on the port > #'s). It's trivial to do it there if that host is running linux and has > iptables installed. > Looks like iptables is installed. How would I go about doing this? > > Please back this out upstream. > > David: please contact the vendor and file an RFE (request for enhancement) > that the application generating this traffic mark it properly (as per > RFC-4594). If this problem is affecting you, it's probably affecting others > that don't have the technical means to work around it. > Will look into this. > > I've slowly been getting patches upstream to Apache, APR, Proftpd, Firefox, > Thunderbird, Cyrus, Openssh, Sendmail, Wget, libcurl, etc. to get > applications to use the correct settings. This is the end-game. > > In fact, if you send me the details off-list about the system and app, I > might know of a proper fix for you. > Application in question is the CrashPlan linux client... http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/download.html?os=Linux It is connecting to the online (CrashPlan Central) backup servers through HTTPS/443 port. David
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