Network bandwidth problem

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Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:
> 
>  Hi All!
> 
> I have a little problem here. I'm going to have two employees here who 
> are making calls with skype.
> There is a router (FreeBSD 5.3) and a NAT-ed network. Internet is 
> accessed via ppp (DSL line).
> When the network is loaded heavily, skype is breaking up. Is there any 
> way to configure my router
> to prioritize packets for skype users? The speed of incoming traffic 
> cannot be limited efficiently,
> am I wrong? What I probably need is to limit bandwidth and/or set packet 
> priority by port number.
> I'm not sure about the protcocol of Skype in this case because we would 
> like to use it to make calls
> to regular phone numbers. I'm not really new to ipfw but what I have now 
> is a configuration that
> was changed from an example. Any URL pointing to the right place will be 
> appreciated.

This sounds like a job for some prioritization queues, you might look at 
dummynet for resources on doing this.

DS