From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:08:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7953B16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:08:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.sancho2k.net (spruell.dsl.xmission.com [166.70.24.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DE443D41 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:08:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@sancho2k.net) Received: (qmail 22492 invoked by uid 1011); 11 Mar 2005 19:08:10 -0000 Received: from 10.0.1.4 by molodetz.sancho2k.net (envelope-from , uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.24 (clamdscan: 0.80/680. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(10.0.1.4):. Processed in 0.097718 secs); 11 Mar 2005 19:08:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.1.4]) ([10.0.1.4]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.sancho2k.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Mar 2005 19:08:10 -0000 Message-ID: <4231EC9A.1090909@sancho2k.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:08:10 -0700 From: "Sancho2k.net Lists" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050122 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laszlo Zsolt Nagy References: <4231C366.2070306@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <4231C366.2070306@freemail.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network bandwidth problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:08:12 -0000 Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > Hi All! > > I have a little problem here. I'm going to have two employees here who > are making calls with skype. > There is a router (FreeBSD 5.3) and a NAT-ed network. Internet is > accessed via ppp (DSL line). > When the network is loaded heavily, skype is breaking up. Is there any > way to configure my router > to prioritize packets for skype users? The speed of incoming traffic > cannot be limited efficiently, > am I wrong? What I probably need is to limit bandwidth and/or set packet > priority by port number. > I'm not sure about the protcocol of Skype in this case because we would > like to use it to make calls > to regular phone numbers. I'm not really new to ipfw but what I have now > is a configuration that > was changed from an example. Any URL pointing to the right place will be > appreciated. This sounds like a job for some prioritization queues, you might look at dummynet for resources on doing this. DS