Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:08:10 -0700 From: "Sancho2k.net Lists" <lists@sancho2k.net> To: Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <nagylzs@freemail.hu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network bandwidth problem Message-ID: <4231EC9A.1090909@sancho2k.net> In-Reply-To: <4231C366.2070306@freemail.hu> References: <4231C366.2070306@freemail.hu>
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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
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