LARTC - Nov 2003 - classify incominf traffic

Hi,
is it possible to treat incoming traffic different according to eg port
numbers or source addresses? is there a way to setuop some filters that
for example prefer incoming mail to incoming http?

i''ve seen that simply limiting bandwith fer certain kinds of traffic is
possible - but that wastes a lot of bandwidth if one kind of traffic
isn''t present at a time, not allowing the other traffic use that unused
bandwidth, doesn''t it?

Is there a way to optimize that?

thanks for reply
cb
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:06, Cord Buhlert wrote:
> Hi,
> is it possible to treat incoming traffic different according to eg port
> numbers or source addresses? is there a way to setuop some filters that
> for example prefer incoming mail to incoming http?
>
> i''ve seen that simply limiting bandwith fer certain kinds of
traffic is
> possible - but that wastes a lot of bandwidth if one kind of traffic
> isn''t present at a time, not allowing the other traffic use that
unused
> bandwidth, doesn''t it?
>
> Is there a way to optimize that?
You can try the imq device.  That''s a virutal device and you can
redirect any
traffic to it.  Also incoming traffic.  Traffic can be shaped on this device 
with htb.  So you can use htb to shape incoming traffic, but it can create 
also extra overhead and increase the latency.

Stef

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