[rescue] IP traffic prioritizer?

[Jay West]

You can implement "traffic shaping" in cisco speak. Access lists designate
what traffic matches the given priority, then traffic shape based on
access-list.

Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian" <bri at sonicboom.org>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] IP traffic prioritizer?


> If you have config control over the router, queueing will do the job for
> you.
>
>
> Brian
>
> The path to a desireable destination
> is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2003 jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:
>
> >    I'm looking at hosting something that could conceivably peg the
> > outbound side of my T1. In one sense, that's fine, since it doesn't cost
> > me any more to run it at 100% than at 10%, but at the same time, I'd
like
> > packets from my other servers to be able to get out in a timely fashion.
> > It seems to me what I'd really like to do is establish a policy in the
> > gateway between my internal backbone and the Cisco handling the T1,
> > which says "packets from IP address X go out only when there are no
packets
> > from any other address waiting." Unless I'm missing something, this
> > should allow the server at X to use whatever fraction of the T1 is left
> > over (which is 75% or more, most of the time) while at the same time
giving
> > my other servers what appears to be a mostly clear channel.
> >
> >    I'm sure this isn't a unique problem, but I don't know what to look
> > for. I'd prefer some kind of package that I could run on NetBSD but I
> > have plenty of other platforms if a better solution is available that
> > way. Does anybody have any ideas?
> >
> >    Thanks!
> >
> >    --James B.
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