/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting! /* ALSO: Don't quote this header. It makes you look lame :-) */ If your incoming traffic is mostly HTTP maybe you can install the Squid HTTP cache+proxy in the Linux machine and activate the 'delay pools' feature of Squid to group your web users giving to each group different performances. In the Squid documetation you can find more info about this. Pease someone more competent correct me if i'm wrong with this suggestion. And SangTae Ha, if you implement this and it works, please share your experience with us. I apologize for my English. -- Ramiro ------Original Message------ From: raf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 25, 2000 6:42:26 AM GMT Subject: Re: [Masq] Question about Bandwidth throttling and prioritisation SangTae Ha wrote: > I setup linux machine which is masquerading with 1 ip address. > After attaching one more ethernet card, I have a network of internal masqed computers with ip addresses starting at > 192.168.10.2 (10.1 is the linux gateway). > > Internet - Linux Machine - local computers > (External) (Internal) > > External bandwidth is fixed, so I want to prioritize local hosts especially into 5 priority levels. > Is there any method which can prioritize the local hosts? Any idea? > > Thanks in advance. you can use iproute2 to do outgoing traffic shaping. there's nothing you can do about the incoming traffic. there's a howto about this: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html section 8 talks about this. raf ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ -- THIS INCLUDES UNSUBSCRIBING! or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Please keep general linux/unix/pc/internet questions off the list.
