[gentoo-user] prioritzed Ethernet traffic?

[gentoo-user] prioritzed Ethernet traffic?

[Mark Knecht]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] prioritzed Ethernet traffic?

[Daniel Iliev]

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

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Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-user] prioritzed Ethernet traffic?

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/14/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> 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?
<SNIP>
> 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
>

Thanks Daniel. A little light reading over the next few days.

Cheers,
Mark
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