Brian J. Murrell said: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 21:25 +0100, Andreas Klauer wrote: >> Actually, a class is always able to use it's rate at any time. The prio >> has >> only an effect when the class is trying to borrow bandwidth from others - >> then the high prio classes are allowed to take what they need first. > > I have wondered about something like this too. I want to simply > prioritize my upstream bandwidth use, not limit it's use by anything. > Just say (for example) that if an SSH packet is somewhere in the > outbound direction when it hits the queue it gets put to the front of > the queue to minimize the latency of SSH whereas something like > bittorrent waits for SSH but otherwise gets full use of the upstream > bandwidth. In fact if I were to saturate the upstream with SSH, > something like bittorrent should effectively get no bandwidth at all. > > I think this is what Mark wants to, if I'm understanding him correctly. I use PRIO myself for this. It works fine. http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/scenarios.html#guarprio _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
