Tip: Improve the quality of surfing <LAN-Internet>

[aru]

In case you have set up a LAN in your home, with GNU/Linux as router and window$/Linux clients, and you get sick watching your bandwidth shrinking and shrinking to null when your brother is using Kazaa upstairs, here is your solution:

 

HOWTO: Quality of Surfing: An Intermediate Level HowTo from the Linux Journal.

 

With a mandrake kernel you won't need to do anything special besides adjusting the values of the script to your own connection numbers.

 

I'm just testing it with good results.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Wow. Thanks aru! I had this very question and the only answers ever given to me were "I think I remember using QoS to do this' (thanks, qnr - :P ). Bummer that I have to recompile my kernel, though, because I don't have anything about QoS compiled in.

[bvc]

Bummer that I have to recompile my kernel, though, because I don't have anything about QoS compiled in.

Did you compile it out? As aru pointed out, it's already in a mdk kernel (just checked ML9.1's 2.4.21-0.13mdk).

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Because of my MoBo, I cannot use MDKs 2.4.* kernel with their .config file, so I compiled my own. I have yet to figure out what options in the .config file cause the stock 2.4.* kernel to not boot with my MoBo, so I always compile from scratch.

 

Edit: And I'm still using 8.1 because I'm on dialup and waiting for 9.1 to be released in stores (I never do a *.0 release....too buggy)

[qnr]

Well, just for info, I was using 8.1 when I was using QoS.

[Darkelve]

Howto improve quality of surfing:

 

"urpmi opera"

 

(ducks for cover)