Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm just wondering how one goes about creating higher/lower > priority Ethernet traffic on a home network. Is it possible? > Difficult? > > When I'm in my office working on my Gentoo box I have two main > things I'm doing across a wireless network: > > 1) Watching MythTV. This traffic is going wireless to the router and > then wired to the backend server. I'd like this traffic to be high > priority. > > 2) Browsing the web, using GMail, etc. In general I'd like this > traffic to be low priority. > > With a default network setup, when I change web pages to something > that sends in a lot of data I get delays in MythTV making it less > compelling to watch. Is there something I can do about this? > > Thanks, > Mark This could be accomplished by using a traffic shaper. The package iproute2 comes with a program called "tc". This program can do the trick for you. I would recommend reading: 1) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/ 2) http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm
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