[gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

[Matthias Langer]

I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where
one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister
(i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my
workstation.

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 ... 

To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing,
subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small
homenetwork containing only 2 boxes.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks, 
Matthias

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