ACK Prioritization

[Balthazar]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows of a good easy distro that might have out-of-the-box traffic shaping abilities, namely the ability to prioritize ACK's to alleviate the problem of uploading on a DSL/Cable line killing the download.

I heard Smoothwall was possibly implementing it in v2.0 but I cant get to their site right now to find out.

If anyone knows (or has any tips on it, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

-Balthazar-

 

[Balthazar]

 

[Balthazar]

Also, if anyone knows of someone else whos allready premoded a Smoothwall/IPCop distro to support it I would love to know.

 

[Fuzznuts]

shorewall and htb.init scripts will do what you need. however youll need a full distro of some kind redhat, fedora etc but it will do what you ask. i use it for my 1mbit/256 cable here at home.

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD supports this. There is even a paper on this exact issue.

 

[Balthazar]

I know I can do it with a full distro, but the problem is my roomate doesnt know much about *nix so I cant just tell him "uh, yeah, anytime you need to forward a port your gonna have to go through a much more involved process". So I need something like IPCop or Smoothwall.

 

[Fuzznuts]

Originally posted by: Balthazar
I know I can do it with a full distro, but the problem is my roomate doesnt know much about *nix so I cant just tell him "uh, yeah, anytime you need to forward a port your gonna have to go through a much more involved process". So I need something like IPCop or Smoothwall.

if you can use smoothwall you can use webmin. it is probably much more intuitive than smoothwalls web interface and it has far more control than smoothwall ever will. and yes port forwarding is as easy as click fill in box click. unless you friend is extremely stupid i am sure even he could manage it. take a look at www.webmin.net for more details. it works on 99% of linux distros and the install on redaht is as simple as rpm -ivh webmin.rpm surely not too hard

 

[Fuzznuts]

found one that may be right up your street take a look here http://m0n0.ch/wall/ it does traffic shaping and is very similar to smooth wall. ie a web frontend its based on bsd but i might even take a look at it my self

 

[Balthazar]

I actually pretty much decided to bite the bullet and use webmin. I think I will try to adapt the frontend (or make my own script that passes to it) to just show the port forwarding and similar stuff for my roomate. I setup a shaper script and right now I'm download 165K/Sec with upload which is exactly what I was downloading at before the upload.

 

[Balthazar]

Oh and to clarify, my problem wasnt with webmin per-se, I just wasnt too thrilled about jumping into a whole server setup. But I figured its kinda a waste of this machine (and a ton of space) to usea distro that like 20MB or smaller. This works out well, just doesnt get me out of getting hands one