> Hi! > Currently I'm controlling 4 Mbit Connection based on the source and > destination ports, so that ftp traffic doesn't clog the line and udp packets > and other time critical things (ssh, irc, etc...) get priority. > > Normally that works just fine, but two problems remain: > > - How do I recognize traffic from non-standard ports? > (like a ftp-server on port 1337) > > - Big http-transfers still clog the line > I want my users to be able to surf fast. But when they download > big files from a webserver this transfer should be slowed down. > > Perhaps a way to slow down any connection that exceeds a certain size would > solve both problems. Any suggestions, pointers or ideas for a better policy > are welcome! WFQ seems to do just this, but in lack of any real implementation there is wrr: http://wipl-wrr.sourceforge.net/ It has the ability to automatically lower the weights of streams with high bandwidth-usage. --- John Bäckstrand
