Linux Journal: Quality of Surfing: An Intermediate Level HowTo

“How many of us poor blighters on 56K (or even DSL) have been
dinking away on an SSH session when all of a sudden the connection
seems to lag? The data lights on the modem indicate furious
activity. And then we notice it–the spousal unit or the child
process is busy sucking down some huge web page, hogging our
connections. You’d feel bad telling them to lay off for a bit;
besides, having their own machines sharing your Internet feeds
keeps them out of your hair, right? Well, not exactly. If they’ve
got the bandwidth that means you don’t. And, there’s always the
question of glomming the latest ISO off the Pink Tie mirror or the
new trailer for Hollywood’s latest attempt at converting a comic
book into several million dollars worth of popcorn revenues. One
would love to see it real soon now, without waiting until the
dinner hour when no one is on to dedicate the bit-pipe. Or, even
better, perhaps you’re one of the lucky ones who actually can run a
server from home these days, and you just made Slashdot. Uh-oh. Now
you’ll never get anything done.

“Not to worry, you’re running Linux. There are ways of fixing
this situation, but you’ll need to clog the bit-pipe one last time.
You’re going to need the kernel source and any dependencies, as
well as the iproute package. You also need to know how to recompile
the kernel. Much about this topic has been written elsewhere; go
Google for the Linux Kernel HOWTO if you need more
information…”

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