[IPCop-devel] Traffic shaping enhancement suggestions

[Greg Depasse]

I've seen a lot of questions regarding traffic shaping and I'd thought
I'd write up a list of possible enhancements that would make it more
capable/usable. I'm willing to help with writing the shaping side of
things, but I have no experience with C or the frontend bits.

1. Ability to prioritize by host (not just ports) - very useful to
prioritize all traffic from a VOIP adapter.

2. Ability to change default priority - this would allow us to easily
move hard to define services (ftp data and p2p) into the low priority
queue. Then you could manually add normal stuff like http, https into
the medium queue.

3. A nice to have would be the ability to graph the traffic in each queue.

Any thoughts?

-Greg

[Wayne Scott]

Post by Greg Depasse
I've seen a lot of questions regarding traffic shaping and I'd thought
I'd write up a list of possible enhancements that would make it more
capable/usable. I'm willing to help with writing the shaping side of
things, but I have no experience with C or the frontend bits.
1. Ability to prioritize by host (not just ports) - very useful to
prioritize all traffic from a VOIP adapter.

Yes! I got this working from the command line, but haven't done the
intergration work.

Post by Greg Depasse
2. Ability to change default priority - this would allow us to easily
move hard to define services (ftp data and p2p) into the low priority
queue. Then you could manually add normal stuff like http, https into
the medium queue.

I could see this being useful.

Post by Greg Depasse
3. A nice to have would be the ability to graph the traffic in each queue.

Very nice, but not really required.


I can fix the restartshaping program, but don't have the energy to
figure out the http stuff.

If someone wants to do the forms and code to write
/var/ipcop/shaping/config, I will make the changes to
restartshaping.c.

-Wayne

[Greg Depasse]

Post by Wayne Scott

Post by Greg Depasse
3. A nice to have would be the ability to graph the traffic in each queue.

Very nice, but not really required.

I agree it's only a nice to have. One thing I was thinking about for
the graphs is to see the amount of traffic being held up so I could
see how well shaping is working.

[Isenberg, Karsten (IS-Handel)]

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It would be great, if IPCop has also these features.

K. Isenberg
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Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Oktober 2004 16:42
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Betreff: [IPCop-devel] Traffic shaping enhancement suggestions


I've seen a lot of questions regarding traffic shaping and I'd thought I'd
write up a list of possible enhancements that would make it more
capable/usable. I'm willing to help with writing the shaping side of
things, but I have no experience with C or the frontend bits.

1. Ability to prioritize by host (not just ports) - very useful to
prioritize all traffic from a VOIP adapter.

2. Ability to change default priority - this would allow us to easily move
hard to define services (ftp data and p2p) into the low priority queue.
Then you could manually add normal stuff like http, https into the medium
queue.

3. A nice to have would be the ability to graph the traffic in each queue.

[Wayne Scott]

I thought of one more:

4. Ability to mark the priority of VPN traffic.

(I don't know how to do this, and I don't really need it, but I suspect some people do.)

-Wayne