From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 9 20:10: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from showcase.pdsys.com (showcase.pdsys.com [207.167.12.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B9137BA3F for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@pdsys.com) Received: from dooley ([24.108.11.34]) by showcase.pdsys.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56457U100L100S0V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:56:26 -0600 From: "Jim Whitelaw" To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Cc: "chip@chocobo.cx" Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:51:34 -0600 Reply-To: "Jim Whitelaw" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) In-Reply-To: <20000509144859.A37810@setzer.chocobo.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Packet priority Message-ID: <20000510025626515.AAA194@showcase.pdsys.com@dooley> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 May 2000 14:48:59 -0400, Chip Marshall wrote: >What I'm looking to do is some sort of prioritizing of packets for >delivery on our FreeBSD routers. What I kindof have in mind is a >system that would give non-news traffic a higher priority than news >traffic, so that news is the first thing to have it's bandwidth cut. I think that ALTQ might be what you're looking for: http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/programs.html The ALTQ page says that ALTQ is integrated into KAME IPv6 and since KAME IPv6 was integrated into FBSD 4.0, you may already have it if you're running 4.0. ========================================================================= Jim Whitelaw tel: +1.780.975.1534 jim-at-pdsys-dot-com fax: +1.780.484.9239 Pathways Data Systems Inc. http://www.pdsys.com/ ========================================================================= "It is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send packets designed to have the worst possible effect." - F.Baker, RFC1812 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBORiylio2mWE/JSfJEQJzFQCg1Omu1goviFOJVQcn0bqaEd5bxmUAoJts NT+LTVns31LY5JSwFJG2bBeB =7dEu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message