It will work like you visualise: but this configuration is not the best.
Get a switch and another network card for your gateway.
adsl/modem/whatever ---- gateway ---- switch ---- pc1
|--- pc2
|--- ...
Better security, easier to admin, harder to bypass, ...
Prioritising traffic is easy, but on a fast link that usually is not
fully loaded, it slows things down slightly - I use it, but am unable to
make my mind up thats it a real advantage or not on balance.
BillK
On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:19 -0500, Colin wrote:
> I've got a problem that I think Gentoo can solve...
>
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