[HiPPIE-Users] hippie and userspace

[Marc W. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,

Have I got the information correctly from the home page that the only
way using hippie is patching the kernel?
I've setup traffic shaping on my v-server shape the down stream which
seems to work fine.

However I'm still looking for a way to distinguish http downloads
(larger files) from http browsing traffic. matching a big package size
seems to work reosanable.. But maybe there is even a better way ?

So in this case I'd like to parse the http header fields to look at the
length value. If it exceeds a limit slow down the stream (until a small
file (eg html file) is requested again). So this requires kind of state.
I think hippie has been made for this?

Does HiPPIE work well in xen guest kernels?

Has anyone thought about creating some kind of business out of this?
I mean a lot of people do have slow browsing experiences because Win is
downloading a service pack or such. Installing and configuring a vpn is
dead simple routing all the traffic through a shaper. Only people having
slow connections are interested in general. So there would'nt be too
much unpredictable loads on the server either ?

Sincerly
Marc Weber