but arent iproute2/traffic-shaper for the "client" side ?? as in, it would only stop the outgoing and the incoming traffic right? it still doesnt stop the data being transferred **on** the phone line... so still eating my dear bandwidth up ...! (i am using a 56Kbps phone-line modem !!)
quite rightly Qos, is what i could have used, but since someone said, its unavailable with VSNL, is their any other "such" alternative? with any other provider?? On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:51 pm, you wrote: > 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================ 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 =================================================
