Re: Bandwidth shaping only on port 80. Penalize heavy http.

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Kearnstd Elf Wizard Premium join:2002-01-22 Mullica Hill, NJ	reply to maxtor Re: Bandwidth shaping only on port 80. Penalize heavy http. first off you have to find out what is causing the traffic. Without more data its hard to know. Are you trying to stop people from streaming Netflix? Or do you have steam users patching games?. Helps to know the why and the cause of the need to limit download. if its P2P you are tackling that is not on port 80. in fact I doubt Netflix is solidly on port 80 or any of the game services(Steam, Origin.). Even Windows Update does not have to be on port 80. -- [65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports
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maxtor join:2012-12-21 122002	Hi Kearnstd, Thank you for replying. Quite valid questions. I have around 100 people to serve with 5 Mbps link. What I want is to penalize people watching youtube in HD or doing http downloads of bulk files should get lower priority than, people who are just checking their mails (gmail) / light web browsing. I have a simple NATed system with a linux gateway (Centos 6.2) with WAN on one side and LAN on another. Iptables does the rest. So, when somebody watches a heavy youtube video, another user suffers from slow browsing speeds. Just wanted everyone to get a fair share of the bandwidth, so as there is no single hogger. Hope this clears my intention and my current infrastructure.
maxtor join:2012-12-21 122002	to forum · permalink · 2012-12-27 07:48:24 ·

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