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  From: <Joel@airnet.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 12:40:31 +1030

RE: PROGRAMMERS! have an idea for you

Even better is the QoS tools available in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. You'll need
the iproute2 tools to do this. Information is a bit hard to find and the
utilities are pretty cryptic, but check out these links:

http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/Packet-Shaping-HOWTO.html

http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/

Joel

> The traffic shaper is a virtual network device that allows 
> you to limit the
> rate of outgoing data flow over some other network device. 
> The traffic that
> you want to slow down can then be routed through these 
> virtual devices.

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