On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, S Mohan wrote: > Let us say eth0 is connected the Internet and eth1 to the local LAN. Then > shaping outgoing traffic on eth1 is equivalent to throttling incoming on > eth0. Another alternative is to use the IMQ device. I recommend the first > method. The problem is that I dont have a separate router. I have a single machine (a laptop), which is connected to the internet with a 128kbps connection. I dont know how to do incoming traffic shaping, when only one machine is present, which is typical in home usage scenarios. > -----Original Message----- > From: lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of K S Sreeram > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 6:01 PM > To: lartc > Subject: Re: [LARTC] bandwidth limiting incoming data > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > -- K S Sreeram Director of Research Tachyon Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
