you can have your firewall set the tos for ftp to something like 0x08 and keep only low bandwidth high priority things like ssh as 0x10. "Jason A. Pattie" <pattieja@pcxperience.com> said: > So then is there a way to modify the packet on the way out of squid to > force it to be the TOS we want that will cause it to go to 20: instead > of 10: ? Maybe modification of squid is in order? to keep it from > changing the TOS field? (We have the source! :) ) > > Or is there some other way to make it so that SSH traffic itself is > bumped to higher priority than just the generic 0x10 TOS packets? Maybe > match on destination or source port 22? > > Dhaval Patel wrote: > > >i could be wrong its been some time since i did this but i think that 0x10 is > >for quick response time 0x08 is for high throughput 0x04 is for a more > >guranteed service or something like that. > > > >hope this helps. > > > >"Jason A. Pattie" <pattieja@pcxperience.com> said: > > > >>Found the TOS field was being set to 0x10 for "ftp" traffic and 0x08 for > >>"http" traffic. What significance does that play? And it is either > >>being done by Squid or by Mozilla, don't know how to tell which, though. > >> > >>Michael T. Babcock wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:04:28PM -0600, Jason A. Pattie wrote: > >>> > >>>>Where in the output of tcdump does the TOS field appear? I did the > >>>>'tcpdump -n -v -v' on the firewall and dumped the output to a file as I > >>>>started the Linux kernel download. Is it appropriate to attach the > >>>>output (I stopped it after around 250 packets)? > >>>> > >>>In the version I have of tcpdump TOS only shows up when its set to > >>>something special. > >>> > >>-- > >>Jason A. Pattie > >>pattieja@pcxperience.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > >>http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Jason A. Pattie > pattieja@pcxperience.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/ > --
