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Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow.

Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow.

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Does anyone really understand how HFSC scheduling in Linux/BSD works?

I read the original SIGCOMM '97 PostScript paper about HFSC, it is very technically, but I understand the basic concept. Instead of giving a linear service curve (as with pretty much every other scheduling algorithm), you can specify a convex or…
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Mouse cursor jumps around when using RDP

We have over 350 users complaining that their mouse cursor keeps jumping around when typing. It seems like it's happening when the protocol is starved for bandwith, but I'm not quite sure yet. If it only was the cursor moving it would be fine -…
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Cannot set DSCP on Windows 10 Pro via group policy

Setting 'policy based QoS' on Windows 10 does not apply the DSCP value to outgoing traffic. I want to be able to set the value of DSCP traffic for certain processes. Using gpedit.msc group policy editor, I created a policy under Computer…
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IOS QOS service policy pass-through on a tunnel interface

I have some SIP phones on one network that go through an IPIP tunnel to get to the server. I've setup QOS rules to watch for appropriate VOIP traffic as follows: class-map match-any class-voice description Voice match dscp af11 match dscp…
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How to determine number of open sockets? VM Resource Issues

I've got a MediaTemple DV server. I've been seeing a lot of QOS alerts for "numothersock" which is defined as: The number of sockets other than TCP ones. Local (UNIX-domain) sockets are used for communications inside the system. UDP sockets are…
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Sharing Bandwidth and Prioritizing Realtime Traffic via HTB, Which Scenario Works Better?

I would like to add some kind of traffic management to our Internet line. After reading a lot of documentation, I think HFSC is too complicated for me (I don't understand all the curves stuff, I'm afraid I will never get it right), CBQ is not…
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Blocking BitTorrent

How can one block, or severely slow down, BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer (P2P) services on one's small office network? In searching Server Fault I wasn't able to find a question that served as a rallying point for the best technical ideas on…
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SOHO - throttle bittorrent traffic from problem users

I manage the network in a small office (SW dev is my "real job"), and there are a couple of users who beat the hell out of our internet connection by running bittorrent. Between the almost crippling effect on the upload side (20Mbps) and the…
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How can I block Spotify on our company network?

How can I block Spotify on our company network? Unfortunately it's killing our bandwidth and the effect is really serious.
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How do you configure QoS for Skype?

On our office network (26 people), some users have complained of poor Skype call quality, particularly in the upstream direction. I wanted to ask, how do I identify Skype traffic, considering that it uses a random port, in order that I might…
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Traffic shaping: tc filter catch all filter

How Can I configure a "catch all" filter with tc filter? I tested with the following code but it gave me the error: "Unknown filter "1:100", hence option "protocol" is unparsable": tc filter add dev $IF_LAN parent 1:100 protocol ip prio 7 flowid…
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Cisco IOS QoS prioritize SSH but not SCP

How can I prioritize ssh traffic to ensure low-latency but throttle SCP file transfers? I'm looking for a solution that is not host specific so I don't have to add lists of IP addresses. Thanks!
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Linux QoS: bulk data transmission during idle times

How would I do a QoS setup where a certain low-priority data stream would get up to X Mbps of bandwidth, but only if the current total bandwidth (of all streams/classes) on this interface does not exceed X? At the same time, other data streams /…
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How to QoS NFS?

I have the following NFS-based storage setup: Computes nodes are Linux. The NFS servers are Solaris. A not-so-important user runs a bunch of read intensive jobs on a subset of the compute nodes. As a result, the whole group of compute nodes becomes…
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Traffic Management recommendations

What's your strategy towards traffic prioritization/management. I am not really to just get a list of packet shaping solutions. Instead, I would like to get recommendations about traffic management strategies that include: What software/hardware…
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