On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:30, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> I have a friend who is setting up an ISP co-op who's asked me for
> information on how to set up Quality of Service and packet prioritization on
> Linux (and particularly Mandrake). Sadly, I know nothing about the topic.
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers on where to go to get me/him started in
> setting this up? In particular, we want to know how to do the following:
>
> 1) Allow individual users a specified amount of bandwidth
> 2) Prioritize types of IP packets over one another (e.g. web has higher
> priority than P2P)
> 3) How to do this as easily as possible
There is now a website devoted to the various Linux advanced routing and
traffic control features. You can download a 147 page how-to from this
site that documents many of the traffic shaping features. Several
"cookbook" examples are also documented. There is also an active
mailing list.
http://lartc.org/
Seth
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