[plug] [OT] eMule (Network analysis info required)

[Craig Ringer]

> I think one of the shaper tools mentioned elsewhere might be the answer. I'll 
> try along those lines.

I share my ADSL service with 3 others on a home LAN, and I'm using HTB 
traffic scheduling and QoS with good results. It can't provide 
guaranteed LATENCY, but you can provide solid and reasonable bandwidth 
allocations to hosts, and you can control latency by keeping the link a 
little below its maximum utilization. It also helps to give TCP ACKs 
maximum priority on the link, followed by SYN, RST, and ssh traffic. SSH 
is even nice enough to set the bulk flag on packets that are part of 
port forwards etc, so if it fits your network you can reduce the 
priority of 'bulk' ssh traffic. I've reduced its priority a little 
except for between home & work, since I get my mail over an ssh tunnel 
to work's IMAP server.

It takes a bit of learning, but it's well worth it.

Craig Ringer