Currently I run a very and common setup for my home network.You can use the appropriately named mangle table to set TOS like this:
My Linux box acts as my router and gateway for my home network and simply NATs everything out to the cable modem and onto the internet.
My question is this. I have read awhile ago that changing the TOS of packets can be beneficial in ganing small performance. Logically I thought this would pretty much be limited to a Point to Point systems. However by posting to some forums for broadband, i hearf through the perverbial grapevine that my ISP(Charter Communications) will honor user or application set TOS values unless they are under network congestion. I can of course not verify this.
This is my quandry. Currently this is all I do..
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 68.119.49.97
Is it possible to mangle NAT in a way that all my nat traffic carries slightly higher TOS values? Will this give me a slight to any boost in upstream?
As always thanks for any info in advance and hail to the open source community.
SBlaze
$iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -m tcp --sport 80 -j TOS --set-tos 0x08
I don't have enough traffic on my network to see a noticeable difference when I change TOS, but given your situation, setting TOS might help.
Jeff
