Cool, thanks Hans, where'd you pick these up?  Is there some HOWTO on
this or something?

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:39:16AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 29. Apr, 2001 schwäzte Jiva DeVoe so:
> 
> > Is it possible to configure a linux firewall to prefer traffic from a
> > certain host?  In other words, if you have 2 hosts on a network, and
> > one is doing a download, if the second one starts something up, it
> > will *NOT* be affected by the download on the first box, but the first
> > box's traffic will slow down to allow the second one through?
> 
> H Speed up telnet and ssh connects
> H ipchains -A ext-in -p TCP -s 0/0 23 -t 0x01 0x10
> H ipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 23 -t 0x01 0x10
> ipchains -A ext-in -p TCP -s 0/0 22 -t 0x01 0x10
> ipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 22 -t 0x01 0x10
> 
> 
> H Make pop, ftp, nntp low priority
> ipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 ftp-data -t 0x01 0x02
> ipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 pop3 -t 0x01 0x02
> ipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 nntp -t 0x01 0x02
> Hipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -y -d 0/0 www -t 0x01 0x02
> Hipchains -A ext-out -p TCP -d 0/0 4000 -t 0x01 0x02
> 
> That's supposed to work for services. I'd suppose you could get it to
> prefer certain IPs. Never checked to see if it really works.
> 
> Then again, I get fairly decent ssh performance connecting to a host on
> speed choice one way from a ricochet.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

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