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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where |
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> one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister |
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> (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my |
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> workstation. |
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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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> To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing, |
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(what i mean is in fact low latency :-) |
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> subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small |
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> homenetwork containing only 2 boxes. |
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> Any suggestions ? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Matthias |
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