Digital Media
Well, what an awesome month.
Diving back in over evenings this week, I found myself trying to deal more effectively with VoIP jitter, and inter-POP VPN latency, and international media sharing effectiveness.
Earlier this week, I stumbled on a new GPL tool .. MasterShaper .. via the good ‘ol Wikipedia under Traffic Shaping. In Debian it basically required a tarball dropped in the web document root and apt-cache pkgnames grep dependencieshere.Found good ‘ol nerim.net too! Great media support is back!.
Anyhow, after learning that IMQ patch allows some new interfaces just before or after the NAT stages (configurable) of the Netfilter engine, and reading about how HFSC has a guaranteed latency knob (for VoIP/Media anti-jitter), it became clear I could be making much better use of my bandwitch then plain old Wondershaper, WondershaperHTB-type scripts. (Which are great for non-jitter-sensitive data).
On another note, Evolution for Windows seems like a nice breather to personal groupware from foreign domains. Okay back to Work!
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