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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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nginx clobbering sftp traffic during peak times - is tc the answer?

This is probably a continuation of my previous (unanswered) question because the underlying cause is probably the same. I have a Linux server with nginx and sshd running on it. It's on a shared 100mbit/s unmetered link. During "peak times"…
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What are good and bad jitter times for a LAN

Ive just ran jperf (frontend to iperf) on our network between 2 workstations, its recorded jitter between 0.033ms and 0.048ms. Is this good or bad? Are there more variables that i would need to consider to make the decision? EDIT: TCP/IP Ethernet…
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Marking packets with iptables with a NAT

I have to write bash scripts for a router to control bandwidth limitation for a given user on a given domain name. For this, I'm using iptables to mark the packets incoming from a restricted domain to a user ip address in the private network. With…
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Linux qos: tc DRR qdisc does not work

There is tc queue discipline DRR(Dificite Round Robin) . It has same capabilities, as HTB, but instead of using buckets, filled with tokens, it just assignes every queue some Dificit Counter. On packet sending DC is decreased by packet size. If DC…
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MasterShaper alternative

I'm looking for an alternative to MasterShaper, something possibly web-based which could allow me to manage QoS easily. Actually MasterShaper still looks supported, but would like to understand if there's anything better. My forum account hasn't…
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QoS basics on a Cisco ASA

Could someone briefly explain how to use QoS on Cisco ASA 5505? I have the basics of policing down, but what about shaping and priorities? Basically what I'm trying to do is carve out some bandwidth for my VPN subnets (in an object-group called…
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Traffic shaping: tc filter attached to an HTB class?

Can I attach a tc filter to an HTB class rather than to an HTB qdisc? For example: tc class add dev $IF_LAN parent 1:100 classid 1:180 htb rate 19kbit ceil 2000kbit prio 4 where: 1:100 -> Is an HTB inner class. This question arises from the fact…
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3 WAN and a Cisco Router - PBR, QOS, Load-Balancing

I have a cisco router with 4 ethernet interfaces, scenario is as follows : 2 x Dedicated Leased Lines (2MB and 4MB) 1 x Business Class DSL 10MB 4 3COM L2, Switches, connected to a Core Switch (3COM - Layer-2) Core Switch Connected to 1 Ethernet…
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Linux TC / Policy Routing tools

In addition to a really good firewall Linux has a builtin advanced routing and traffic shaping (lartc). There are many applications (firehol, firestarter, etc) to make the creation of iptables firewall easier, what similar to tools exist to make…
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Making iptables recognize youtube streams and large files

I use Ubuntu server 10.04 with the stock kernel as a NAT router. I use iptables and tc to do port based traffic prioritization. It is working fine. I have given http higher priority. So my network gets swamped with youtube and bigger http downloads.…
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Limit torrents via QoS on router

I have a very simple linksys router at home with basic support for QoS. We have a problem when everyone is at home that web browsing becomes unusable. I've tracked it down to too many people downloading torrents. Can someone give me some advice on…
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How the big guys monitor their servers?

I'm wondering what software the web scale guys are using to monitor their n arrays of servers in the server farm(s). What does facebook, twitter, digg use? How google does it? I'm looking for a solution to our own monitoring requirements. Our…
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Are there simpler ways to do traffic shaping in linux besides tc?

I read lartc but I don't feel I need such a complicated solution for simple needs. One of such simple use cases is to limit a specific process' available bandwidth, upstream or downstream. How can I run wget or firefox constrained to 50 kb/s…
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QoS for Cisco Router to Prioritize Voice and Interactive Traffic

I have a Cisco 891W NATing Voice and Data to the internet over a 10mbit/2mbit connection. Voice traffic gets degraded when I upload large files. Pings time out as well. I tried to configure a QoS policy but it's basically not doing anything. …
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How to set DSCP values for outgoing traffic from my linux server to check whether QOS is working correctly or not?

I have to validate whether my router's QOS policies are working correctly.I have come up with an approach to tag the packets with DSCP values using IPTABLES. Can anyone confirm whether my approach is correct?If not please provide your help to…
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