On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > I packaged iprelay from http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay/ and now I > need a sponsor. Here is a short description of the program, from the > webpage: > > ip_relay can shape the TCP traffic forwarded through it to a specified > bandwidth and allow this specified bandwidth to be changed on-the-fly. > Multiple data streams to different hosts/ports may be shaped to the > same total bandwidth, much like a traffic shaping router would, > however this application runs in user space, and works by acting as a > TCP proxy.
Hi, Can you describe how this package differs from shaperd? Package: shaperd Description: A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks. Shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through a Linux box. As it runs as a normal daemon, some kind of packet-forwarding mechanism is needed. This can be done with the BSD divert sockets patch for Linux 2.2, or with netfilter's built-in libipq under Linux 2.4. (There's shaper too, although that's kernel-space.) I don't mean to discourage you from packaging this; I'm just curious as to what it brings. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
