On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:47, Trevor Warren wrote: > 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. > Maybe my mail wasnt clear, but what i wanted to know is how to shape incoming traffic on my box, and not at the ISP's end, which I cant control. > > 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! > -- > ( >- GNU/LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) > /~\ __ trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx __ /~\ > | \) / Pre Sales Consultant - Red Hat \ (/ | > |_|_ \ 9820349221(M) | 22881326(O) / _|_| > \___________________________________/ > -- K S Sreeram Director of Research Tachyon Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
