[LBo] Traffic shaping in home LAN

[Sam Morgan]

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a tricky problem to solve. 
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> Now what I'm looking for is something that would be the reverse of 
> 'trickle' (you know that nifty little app?). Something that would give 
> the audio stream top priority over anything else. So the other PCs can 
> share among them the 128 minus 32 kbps upstream bandwidth.
> 
not a small nifty apt, but one solution would be to use a dedicated box for your 
router that runs ipcop
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ipcop

it has everything you could ask for your situation and it runs on older low end 
boxes just fine. I ran it on a p-100 with 64mb ram and a 2 gig hard drive for years.

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