hi all, Heh lot reading today :) i duno why the guy started Netfiter Vs Commercial thingy? However I would love to add "Open Source is the clear winner today..and tomm.. and also open source is what we "third world" can afford :P. Oops sorry, here is my question I just want to know im doing the below on our company firewall, that Type of Service bit things. My question is that 1) Is this beneficial for protocol like MSN and yahoo? I check alot again and again sign in yahoo and msn, however im not sure whether it give me a 4 to 5 second fast signin on yahoo and msn, coz @ work we gota LAN where sometime these IM signin fast and sometime take few seconds more then normal. #### TOS Mangling############## ## For MSN thingy iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -p tcp --dport 1863 -j TOS --set-tos Minimize-Delay ## For Yahoo thingy iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -p tcp --dport 5000:5050 -j TOS --set-tos Minimize-Delay ## For 443 thingy iptables -I PREROUTING -t mangle -p tcp --dport 443 -j TOS --set-tos Minimize-Delay ## For DNS thingy iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -p udp --dport 53 -j TOS --set-tos Minimize-Delay Thanks in advance regards Askar
