Re: Guaranteeing bandwidth through netfilter-based router?

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On Friday 07 January 2005 02:25, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

> Not really, there are pertinent elements of netfilter.  Linux will to
> some rudimentary traffic shaping based upon the TOS bits.  One can
> change those in the mangle table.  Set the VoIP packets as best as you
> can identify them with TOS of minimize-delay - John

Interesting stuff - I didn't know the kernel itself would prioritise packets 
simply by having these bits set, I thought they only existed so that some 
upstream router / ISP could manage them.

Cheers,
Gavin.


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