[plug] Load-limiting ?

[Trevor Phillips]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, you can make a rule that says traffic from 192.168.0.x
> is more urgent than traffic from 192.168.0.y. The rules can also take into
> account protocols: smtp is more urgent than ftp.

Hmmm. That could do the trick. Time to hit the ipchains man pages again...
*sigh*

Sounds interesting as a general thing, too, to have some services lower
priority...

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