Prioritising network traffic on specific network interfaces
I run debian 9.4 (stretch) on my primary laptop right now (turns out every year can be " the year of the linux laptop" if you just get stuck in!!). One thing that had been bugging me over a few months earlier this year was woeful WiFi performance while in the office. I eventually fixed it with the following script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/02wlan_power !/bin/sh IF=$1 STATUS=$2 IFACES=$(iwconfig 2> /dev/null | grep "802.11" | awk '{print $1}') for iface in $IFACES; do if [ "${IF}" = "${iface}" ] && [ "${STATUS}" = "up" ]; then iwconfig ${iface} power off logger "${iface}: turning off powersave mode to prevent constant reconnections" fi done The second thing that had been bugging me was that this was happening even when I was at my desk (which has a cat5e connection to my docking station). Fortunately, I found a few minutes today to learn about ifme