[rescue] IP traffic prioritizer?

[Brian]

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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