Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Mark Shapiro <> | | Subject | Re: Packet Scheduling | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:59:03 -0500 (EST) |
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> Kevin Lentin writes: > > What I want is for interactive telnet sessions to be responsive while an > > ftp or http request is being processed. Under term, packets were > > prioritised based on client. I'm expecting you can't do that in tcp but > > size should be a good approximation. > > I haven't tried linux packet scheduling yet, but my guess is that, since > the scheduler can only control transmit queues, interactive sessions' > performance while doing FTP transfers over serial links will not be much > improved. Am I right? > > Unless, of course, the other side is Linux too, which happens more and > more often to me. ;)
Given that FTP is usually ports 20/21, HTTP is usually 80, and Telnet is almost always 23, a packet scheduling based on port number, where port 23 is given the highest priority, and all other ports are given a lower priority, should be possible...
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