[icecast-dev] new features request

[Dave St John]

> You mean by using STRING matching which is experimental and a thing I
> would never do in kernel (otherwise I dont see how you will do mountpoint
> based badnwidth management).
Thats one of the caveats, and where <limit> would obviously come into play.

> Still it doesnt solve the problem I raised. With QoS you will shape by
> lowering stream rates, which is something you never want for streams.
Doesnt solve it but its an option, rh9 comes with QoS enabled by default
so no patching or recompiling of the kernel. It wouldnt lower bitrates but
you could
statefully inspect each packet(iptables) and prioritize them, as well as a
burst (tc).

Im going to test out some methods today and post back my results

<p><p>Dave St John
Mediacast1 Administrator
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From: "Mihai RUSU" <dizzy at roedu.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] new features request

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> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Dave St John wrote:
>
> > I think that would be a good feature to add in icecast2, dont get me
wrong,
> > im just saying with QoS
> > you have far much more flexibility in handling bandwidth.
> > tcp/ip packets can be marked with iptables and then ran threw tc which
you
> > could then prioritize your packets
>
> You mean by using STRING matching which is experimental and a thing I
> would never do in kernel (otherwise I dont see how you will do mountpoint
> based badnwidth management).
>
> Still it doesnt solve the problem I raised. With QoS you will shape by
> lowering stream rates, which is something you never want for streams.
>
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