Re: [LARTC] newbie question - how to downgrade ftp-data traffic

[Troy Rockwood <troyrock@rocketmail.com>]

--- DLG <lartc@duen.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:39:58AM -0800, Troy Rockwood wrote:
> > My home computer is connected via DSL. 
> I
> > run an ftp server and I have a home network behind the machine so
> that
> > it acts as the router/gateway for that network.
> >  I get a lot of ftp traffic, sometimes so much that traffic from
> the
> > home network is too slow to be useful.  What is the easiest way to
> give
> > all other traffic priority over ftp-data traffic so that it doesn't
> eat
> > up all my bandwidth and starve my wife's web browsing?
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  What I'm
> looking for is the simplest way to give other traffic higher
> > priority than the
> > traffic to/from the ftp-data port (20).  Thanks in advance and
> thanks
> > for your patience.
> > 
> 
> Depending on the ftp mode clients use, data-port may not be the port
> 20.
> In passive mode, the client choose himself the data port.
> Maybe it is your case.

Actually, I checked it with tcpdump (ethereal) and nobody was using
passive mode.  I'm fine if some people that use ftp accidentally get
higher priority (by using passive), it's just when the ftp traffic
drowns out everything else that the problem is.  At present that means
ftp-data (port 20) traffic.  Thanks for the reply though I may have to
be more clever in the future if passive is used predominantly.

> --
> Michael Strauss
> 


==Troy Rockwood - troyrock@rocketmail.com

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.  -- Blaise Pascal

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