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Quality of Surfing: An Intermediate Level HowTo (Linux Journal)

Here's a Linux Journal article on how to use the (much underutilized) fair queueing features of the Linux networking subsystem. "We'll use a fairly simple kernel filter called u32 to ferret out interactive traffic (looking at the ToS or Type of Service field in the packet), bump it to the head of the line outbound and set the bulk traffic filter ('queueing discipline') to use only a percentage of the outbound bandwidth."
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