qos

Simple traffic shaping utility for fighting bufferbloat

The Problem: Bufferbloat (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat</a> ) - Your SSH session turns to molasses when your kid watches YouTube - Your wife complains that "the internet is slow" - You hate the stupid DSL modems supplied by the phone company with their giant packet queues that add unnecessary latency - You have your own Linux router that routes all your traffic or is the only machine you have connected to the Internet and know there must be a better way The Solution: QoS QoS = "Quality of Service" You probably already know about it. Control and proritize traffic. This QoS is new and improved. Previous QoS setups only throttled traffic in the download direction. This one handles both directions using the (poorly documented) Linux ifb interface and tc(8) 'mirred' redirection.