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Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet |
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> connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've |
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> 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some |
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> approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and |
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> assign different priorities to them, as explained at |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of |
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> iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and |
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> clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps |
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> to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... |
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I've used that HOWTO (and contributed bits to it), and its great. |
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But why can't you just limit your P2P application's upload speed? I mean, the |
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program should have some controls that let you do that, right? I know every sane |
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bittorrent app has this. |
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