[vox-tech] bandwidth question - choking http to give more to ssh

[Samuel N. Merritt]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:12:51PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i have a remote web server.  i also ssh into that same machine for mail.
> 
> is there a way to give the bandwidth for my interactive ssh session priority
> over the bandwidth of everything else (in particular the web server)?

Check out Linux traffic control:
http://www.lartc.org/howto/

In particular, I think this example does almost what you want:
http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.filters.html#AEN1100

I haven't played with tc much, but I used it once to throttle the
total outbound bandwidth of a machine. 

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