Sorry, I'm a little behind here, trying to catch up From: "Dmitri Gofmekler" <dmitri@xxxxxxxx> To: <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:38:13 +0200 As far as I know that the traffic that will pass thru the router is balanced so that all connections have the same privilegies. Is it possible to configure the linux based router so that all computers will have the same privilegies? I mean that if in default case full traffic is splitted by connections, so I need to split it by users to prevent one user occupy all traffic by starting 150 simulations downloads with FlashGET for example, but he should be able to occupy all channel if no one else require the traffic this time. My interpretation is that you have one link shared among multiple computers that can be distinguished by their IP addresses and you want to share the link fairly among those computers. There is no current out-of-the-box solution that I know of but this is so similar to SFQ that you can make the change very easily. SFQ offers fair service to "flows" defined by source/dest IP/port. You just want to change that to destination IP for packets coming in from the internet, and source address for packets going out to the internet. If you look at the SFQ code there's a hash function that looks at ports and IP addresses. I propose two variants, one of which comments out all but the destination IP address, the other comments out all but the source IP address. You can use the version that looks at the source at the interfaces going out to the internet and the version that looks at the destination at interfaces going to the local networks. I hope that makes sense.
