Hi,
I'm building a small data acquisition system in a
laboratory for particle physics.
The system consists on one linux PC (backend) which
collects data coming from other PC's (frontend sources),
which connected via ethernet. The backend PC has to be
used also for other secondary tasks, involving networking.
Well, the question is the following:
how can I configure my PC's net-stuff in such a way that the
communications between frontend and backend PC's
have the maximum priority (could be real-time data exchange ?)
and the other networking tasks have very low priority ?
Have I to use more than one ethernet card in my PC's.
Where can I find info about this ? I guess that with linux 2.4.X
kernel this kind of configuration could be trivial ... for
the networking experts, but it is not my case.
I'm trying with reading the networking-HOWTO and iproute2-HOWTO,
which are very good, but may be some of you are so kind to
give me some hint or suggestion to solbe my problem within
a smaller amount of time ...
Many thanks in advance,
ciao,
Gianmaria Collazuol
INFN and University of Firenze, Italy
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