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[Arthur van Leeuwen arthurvl@sci.kun.nl]

<PRE>On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 <A HREF="mailto:hesselsp@ashaman.dhs.org">hesselsp@ashaman.dhs.org</A> wrote:

&gt;<i> Sorry for the off-topic question.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I want to set the type of service (ToS) for all the traffic leaving my
</I>&gt;<i> machine.  All out going traffic.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> How can I do this?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> ipchains?
</I>
Or even ipfwadm, if you're still at 2.0. Something like

/sbin/ipchains -A output -t 0x01 0x10 

will set the minimum delay flag on every outgoing packet.

See also the (quite excellent) IPchains HOWTO by Rusty Russell.

Note: the question isn't all that off-topic. The route-cache Linux uses
is keyed on the triple &lt;source address, destination address, type of service&gt;.
I've already encountered a situation in which I *had* to whack the TOS bits
into submission in order to let connections be routed somewhat sanely.

Doei, Arthur. (And yes, that will end up in the FAQ, but not quite yet)

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