Traffic Shaping

I have a NTP server polling 4 stratum 1 servers with an interval from 1 min to 17min.

Having a heavy download eats up my bandwidth (2Mb line) and my time server goes bananas (heavy network delays)

Question:
Anyway I can traffic shape the time server requests (20kbit if all request accidentally happens at the same time) so the pipe of 20kbit are always prioritized ??

best regards  ervin   

Hi,

You might create a queue with weight 1 and the appropriate rule to put your NTP trafic in it. I noticed that when you add up your key weights you should no exceed a total of 100, this leads to problems when all the bandwidth being used. I calculated the weights according to my actual bandwidth and treated weight as percentages....

Hope this helps...