Distinguishing between local FTP uploads and remote FTP downloads

Distinguishing between local FTP uploads and remote FTP downloads

[Andre Majorel]

For traffic shaping purposes, I'd like to distinguish (-j MARK)
between ftp-data packets resulting from me uploading something to
a remote host and ftp-data packets resulting from a remote
download from me.

The goal is, of course, to be able to upload at full speed without
letting remote hosts hog my upload bandwidth at the same time.

Is there any way to do that ?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Distinguishing between local FTP uploads and remote FTP downloads

[Jose Maria Lopez]

El sáb, 08 de 01 de 2005 a las 15:06, Andre Majorel escribió:
> For traffic shaping purposes, I'd like to distinguish (-j MARK)
> between ftp-data packets resulting from me uploading something to
> a remote host and ftp-data packets resulting from a remote
> download from me.
> 
> The goal is, of course, to be able to upload at full speed without
> letting remote hosts hog my upload bandwidth at the same time.
> 
> Is there any way to do that ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Your best bet it's using the QoS capabilities of the
kernel and the tc command. You can find all the information
you need and an excellent howto at http://lartc.org

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