RE: [LARTC] bandwidth limiting incoming data

From: K S Sreeram <sreeram@tachyontech.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [LARTC] bandwidth limiting incoming data
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 03:53:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-105642682611281@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-105637139023569@msgid-missing>

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:05, S Mohan wrote:
> Let us say eth0 is connected the Internet and eth1 to the local LAN. Then
> shaping outgoing traffic on eth1 is equivalent to throttling incoming on
> eth0. Another alternative is to use the IMQ device. I recommend the first
> method.

The problem is that I dont have a separate router. I have a single
machine (a laptop), which is connected to the internet with a 128kbps
connection.

I dont know how to do incoming traffic shaping, when only one machine is
present, which is typical in home usage scenarios.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl [mailto:lartc-admin@mailman.ds9a.nl]On
> Behalf Of K S Sreeram
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 6:01 PM
> To: lartc
> Subject: Re: [LARTC] bandwidth limiting incoming data
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:47, Trevor Warren wrote:
> > Hello Sreram,
> >
> >  AFAIK all Traffic Shaping be it Ingress/Egress can be done at your end.
> > This will help majorly on the link at your end by prioritising trafic
> > appropriately.
> >
> >  You can't possibly change traffic priorities at your isps end.
> >
> 
> Maybe my mail wasnt clear, but what i wanted to know is how to shape
> incoming traffic on my box, and not at the ISP's end, which I cant
> control.
> 
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:38, K S Sreeram wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am connected to the internet thru a 128kbps connection, with a single
> > > box. There is no separate router.
> > >
> > > I have a 'cvs update' going on for a rather large repository.
> > > Whenever there is any HTTP traffic(browser/wget/apt-get etc), the CVS
> > > traffic seems to come to a halt. So it looks like my ISP is giving
> > > higher priority to HTTP traffic.
> > >
> > > Is there any way I can give higher priority to the CVS traffic?
> > >
> > > I have read lartc, but all the techniques it talks about
> > > (cbq, htb etc) works only for outgoing traffic, not for incoming data.
> > > I am not sure if the ingress qdisc is suitable for this problem
> > >
> > > In freebsd, I could use 'ipfw pipes' to control incoming traffic too..
> > > Is there a similar mechanism that can be done in linux?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance!
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