On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > 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, (what i mean is in fact low latency :-) > subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small > homenetwork containing only 2 boxes. > > Any suggestions ? > > Thanks, > Matthias >
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