Re: [gentoo-user] prioritzed Ethernet traffic?

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm just wondering how one goes about creating higher/lower
> priority Ethernet traffic on a home network. Is it possible?
> Difficult?
>
>   When I'm in my office working on my Gentoo box I have two main
> things I'm doing across a wireless network:
>
> 1) Watching MythTV. This traffic is going wireless to the router and
> then wired to the backend server. I'd like this traffic to be high
> priority.
>
> 2) Browsing the web, using GMail, etc. In general I'd like this
> traffic to be low priority.
>
>   With a default network setup, when I change web pages to something
> that sends in a lot of data I get delays in MythTV making it less
> compelling to watch. Is there something I can do about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
This could be accomplished by using a traffic shaper.
The package iproute2 comes with a program called "tc". This program can
do the trick for you.
I would recommend reading:
1) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
2) http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel


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