Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

[Matan Peled <chaosite@gmail.com>]

Matthias Langer wrote:
> 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 ... 

I've used that HOWTO (and contributed bits to it), and its great.

But why can't you just limit your P2P application's upload speed? I mean, the 
program should have some controls that let you do that, right? I know every sane 
bittorrent app has this.

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