On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:25:05PM +0530, Robins Tharakan spoke out thus: > can i somehow place any download, to a "low priority" task... so that my > browsing can go on in the meanwhile ?? i mean, does any ISP in delhi > provide such "priority" measures ??
What you need is a policy based traffic-shaping system. In this you can designate say FTP traffic to 10kbps and rest to unlimited. iproute2 has some provision for policy based traffic shaping,using "tc" & cbq but since it works at IP layer, your particular problem won't get solved. Netfilter also claims to have traffic shaping, and is certainly *much* more attractive as you can set down very fine-grained rules for shaping like tcp ports etc. There is a netfilter module called bytelimit in the netfilter patch-o-matic which lets you do traffic shaping. For this, you would have to download the netfilter userspace/kernel code, apply the patch and recompile. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net ---------------------------- ================================================ To un/subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'un/subscribe' in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
