I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my workstation.
Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorities to them, as explained at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing, subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small homenetwork containing only 2 boxes. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
