Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

[Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote:
> I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where
> one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister
> (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my
> workstation.
> 
> Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet
> connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've  
> 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some
> approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and
> assign different priorities to them, as explained at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of
> iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and
> clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps
> to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... 
> 
> To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing,
(what i mean is in fact low latency :-)
> subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small
> homenetwork containing only 2 boxes.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Matthias
> 

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