[Nottingham] Networking tip: Traffic shaping to minimise latency

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
> Peter Chang wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Yet another one of those 'check out a man page at random' and... Yet 
>>> another set of first rate features already in the kernel just waiting 
>>> to be tweaked!
>>
>> [snipped]
>>
>> Look for wondershaper. It's what I use for broadband. Essentially, TCP/IP
>> wasn't designed for asymmetric links so you need to limit your upload and
>> download rates if you have any large ftp/large http/bittorrent traffic
>> and want good interactive responses (ssh sessions, irc, etc).
See:

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/scripts.shtml

for Wondershaper and others.


> There's also "tinker" (or "trickle") which I've not looked at.
> 
> Some further links for those wanting more of the story:
> http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/
> http://diffserv.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/
> 
> ... and this stuff seems already to be in this 2.6 kernel...

Yeah!
Martin


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