From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam" Subject: Looking for fair bandwidth management advice. Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:49:57 -0500 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <001601c2e0d3$61e6eb80$0b00a8c0@Mustang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_01C2E0A9.7721E4C0" Return-path: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C2E0A9.7721E4C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, this is my first post to the netfilter list. Here is my issue:=20 My internet connection is 28.8 from my home (painfull, but I won't get = into why it has to be this way). I run a linux iptables NAT/firewall to = allow net access to machines on my network. However, whenever one = machine uses the full link speed (downloading a file), it pretty much = cuts the rest of the machines off. Latency goes over 1 second and packet = loss is pretty severe for the other machines. I notice on faster links, = filling the upload and download streams does not send other connections = off into timeout land, but it does add latency to them though. I did read the bandwidth management section of the Linux Advanced = Routing & Traffic HOWTO. Stochastic Fairness Queueing seams to fit what = I'm looking for. However, I'm no TCP/IP expert, so I am looking for = advice on how you would go about working with this setup. Thanks --Adam. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C2E0A9.7721E4C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello, this is my first post to the = netfilter list.=20 Here is my issue:

My internet connection is 28.8 from my = home=20 (painfull, but I won't get into why it has to be this way). I run a=20 linux iptables NAT/firewall to allow net access to machines on = my=20 network. However, whenever one machine uses the full link speed = (downloading a=20 file), it pretty much cuts the rest of the machines off. Latency goes = over 1=20 second and packet loss is pretty severe for the other = machines. I=20 notice on faster links, filling the upload and download streams does not = send=20 other connections off into timeout land, but it does = add latency to=20 them though.

I did read the bandwidth management = section of the=20 Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic HOWTO. Stochastic Fairness Queueing = seams=20 to fit what I'm looking for. However, I'm no TCP/IP expert, so I am = looking for=20 advice on how you would go about working with this setup. Thanks = --Adam.

------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C2E0A9.7721E4C0--