Hello Sreram,
AFAIK all Traffic Shaping be it Ingress/Egress can be done at your end.
This will help majorly on the link at your end by prioritising trafic
appropriately.
You can't possibly change traffic priorities at your isps end.
Trevor
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:38, K S Sreeram wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am connected to the internet thru a 128kbps connection, with a single
> box. There is no separate router.
>
> I have a 'cvs update' going on for a rather large repository.
> Whenever there is any HTTP traffic(browser/wget/apt-get etc), the CVS
> traffic seems to come to a halt. So it looks like my ISP is giving
> higher priority to HTTP traffic.
>
> Is there any way I can give higher priority to the CVS traffic?
>
> I have read lartc, but all the techniques it talks about
> (cbq, htb etc) works only for outgoing traffic, not for incoming data.
> I am not sure if the ingress qdisc is suitable for this problem
>
> In freebsd, I could use 'ipfw pipes' to control incoming traffic too..
> Is there a similar mechanism that can be done in linux?
>
> Regards
>
> Thanks in Advance!
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