From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Coene Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:44:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] wondershaper htb P2P downloads Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 28 May 2003 04:07, Paul Suela wrote: > Sir, > > Thanks for the wondershaper utility! > > It has improved the response time for my ssh connections to my home > server whenever i need to access it from the Internet. > > However, is there a way to setup a bandwidth, say 10kbits/sec (i only > have 128kbits/sec DSL), and assign it to a particular traffic type like > kazaa and other P2P file-sharing? > > This way it will guarantee that my home users of kazaa will only eat up > and share that total small amount amongst my family and nothing more. > > I don't want to restrict P2P usage in my home network but just put a > configurable limit. Any help will be greatly appreciated. :) You can limit some parts of the traffic to a lower bandwidth. But the problem is to match that traffic. And kazaa is very hard to match. It uses random ports and even ACK packets for uploads. As fas I know there is no way to perfectly match kazaa traffic. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/