[LARTC] Prioritizing streams

[LARTC] Prioritizing streams

[Michael T. Babcock]

I have two servers on a network that need to intercommunicate a lot 
(file sharing and authentication information).  I'd like to prioritise 
that traffic on them from their other network traffic, but I don't want 
to think in terms of necessarily fixing bandwidths; I just want the 
inter-server communication to go out first if there's a backlog.

I could decide, I guess, what the minimum level of service for other 
client machines is (say, 5Mbit) and set up two queues -- both unbounded 
-- one for inter-server, one for clients, but with a higher priority on 
the server queue.  Would this work as I expect it to?

-- 
Michael T. Babcock
CTO, FibreSpeed



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Re: [LARTC] Prioritizing streams

[Nikolai Vladychevski]

"Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> 
> I have two servers on a network that need to intercommunicate a lot
> (file sharing and authentication information).  I'd like to prioritise
> that traffic on them from their other network traffic, but I don't want
> to think in terms of necessarily fixing bandwidths; I just want the
> inter-server communication to go out first if there's a backlog.
> 

try PRIO qdisc, but it is tricky, you will note it when the link goes to
its limit only.

Nikolai

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