I have a SuSE9.1 machine acting as a gateway for the internet for a small network and I am very pleased from the way it works so far.

I am offering two services on this machine, www and e-mail (pop3). I was wondering if there is anyway that I could split the bandwidth so that www uses for example 80% and e-mail 20%.

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Chris wrote regarding '[SLE] Managing Bandwidth for the Internet' on Tue, Oct 19 at 02:02:

Dear all,

I have a SuSE9.1 machine acting as a gateway for the internet for a small network and I am very pleased from the way it works so far.

I am offering two services on this machine, www and e-mail (pop3). I was wondering if there is anyway that I could split the bandwidth so that www uses for example 80% and e-mail 20%.

Is there anyway to achieve something like that??

Basically, you'd use iptables to mark/flag the packets as they pass through, and then set up burstable queues to guarantee a minimum level of service to each marked packet. You can do it by hand, but the scripts like wondershaper and cbq are easier to deal with. You could probably also just use QOS marking to place a higher requested qulity of service on http over pop3, which would probably get you where you're trying to go. That oughtta get you enough information to google for the details, eh? :) --Danny