[MLB-WIRELESS] Quality-Of-Service for NodeGHO

[Brenton D.]

Yep I run this type of thing on my wireless interfaces and internet 
interfaces, the only problem with wireless is that when the rate changes 
lower, it can stuff up the qos.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Flett" <conhoolio at hotmail.com>
To: "'Melbourne Wireless'" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:24 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Quality-Of-Service for NodeGHO


> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at implementing Quality-Of-Service (QoS) measures on Node GHO.
> I'm sure you'll all agree that this is necessary, and it should improve 
> the
> network usefulness for everybody.
>
> I'm also looking at other measures to improve NodeGHO - we can deal with
> these in a separate topic.
>
> I'm going to use an adapted version of the qosfw-scripts package mentioned
> on this page:
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/MiniHowtos/QoSHowto
>
> As a start, I'll classify traffic into 3 types -
>
> Priority
> Normal
> Bulk
>
> I suggest that all unclassified traffic be set as "Normal" - but that 
> could
> be open to debate.  Another philosophy is to set all unclassified traffic 
> as
> "Bulk".  But I think this could mean bad things if people ever want to try
> new and interesting applications on the network.
>
> I'm after suggestions as to what protocols/applications should be set as
> Priority, and what should be set as Bulk.  Priority traffic always goes
> first, and so suffers from the least amount of latency.  Bulk traffic 
> always
> goes last and has the highest latency.  Priority traffic should be
> applications where interactivity is important - games, IP telephony and
> command-line tools such as telnet or SSH.  Bulk traffic should be ones 
> that
> are basically file transfers.  P2P and FTP for example.
>
> So throw your suggestions in the ring!  Please include the port number if
> you know it.  For applications with no set port number you may be able to
> classify it using a Layer-7 filter.  Check this list:
> http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/protocols to see if your
> favourite/least-favourite protocol has an L7 filter.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
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