Re: (no subject)

[John Adams <jna () retina net>]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, chandrakant mardhekar wrote:

> hi all
> my basic question is that can we limit bandwith to each protocols
> such as ftp,pop,smtp,http,nntp so that i can give less bandwith to pop and
> more to http is it possible with iptables and how

This isn't really something you'd do at the firewall, it's more of
something that you can do at the router level. MPLS or QoS is what you're
looking for here. You can tag associated packets and then decrease their
priority across the path. Go to Cisco's site and do a search on 'QoS'.

-john



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