Arch Linux

Blah91

Member

Registered: 2013-10-02

Posts: 2

Network priority for the server

Hello, I have one computer working as a server/router (two NIC's) and two windows machines in the LAN. All traffic to the internet goes through the server.

Problem is, that I have few services on the server machine that require a good ping. Sometimes on the windows machines I may end up using the entire download speed (e.g. when downloading something from steam) and thus it may effect (lag) the services on the server. I'd like to give top priority to the server when it comes to downloading/uploading.

I already found out that I can do traffic shaping with shorewall: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ro … _shorewall

Can I use shorewall just to do the traffic shaping and nothing else? I'm already using UFW to forward traffic. Does it conflict with shorewall or require some sort of special configuration to work?

brebs

Member

Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Network priority for the server

I recommend you use plain iptables, so you can debug it.

Here's my traffic shaping, and an alternative method.