On Thursday 21 November 2002 06:49 pm, Rowan Reid wrote: > I have a linux Firewall, with about 20 Masq clients. I'm noticing that > between streaming audio/video and ftp downloads users are maxing out th= e > connection 500K T1. I would like to put a 128K limit per connection ( > I'm assuming only 4 concorrent connections) with a total of 10 > connections at a time. To add to that list I'm also hosting a website > for which I would like to reserve 128K. So in short I would like to 1.) > prioritize my connections a.webserver b. e-mail trnasmitions > c.web/ftp/streaming > How do I even start . http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/2.4routing.html might be a good=20 start, the Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HowTo. It explains different queui= ng=20 approaches available, and creation of routing rules with iproute2. (amon= g=20 other things) You can use iptables to add mangle-prerouting rules that s= et=20 TOS for various packet types/sources/destinations, then use some routing=20 rules and a queuing discipline to prioritize and/or limit them. j
