[LARTC] HTB - prio and rate

[Jason Boxman]

Brian J. Murrell said:
> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 21:25 +0100, Andreas Klauer wrote:
>> Actually, a class is always able to use it's rate at any time. The prio
>> has
>> only an effect when the class is trying to borrow bandwidth from others -
>> then the high prio classes are allowed to take what they need first.
>
> I have wondered about something like this too.  I want to simply
> prioritize my upstream bandwidth use, not limit it's use by anything.
> Just say (for example) that if an SSH packet is somewhere in the
> outbound direction when it hits the queue it gets put to the front of
> the queue to minimize the latency of SSH whereas something like
> bittorrent waits for SSH but otherwise gets full use of the upstream
> bandwidth.  In fact if I were to saturate the upstream with SSH,
> something like bittorrent should effectively get no bandwidth at all.
>
> I think this is what Mark wants to, if I'm understanding him correctly.

I use PRIO myself for this.  It works fine.

http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/traffic_shaping/scenarios.html#guarprio