On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 11:11 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how > slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built > firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need > to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? > Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it > with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using > the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated.
You need Traffic shaping. It needs to be enabled in your kernel. I do not know about IPCop, but I know shorewall supports traffic shaping. http://www.shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm And the Traffic shaping HOWTO so you can do it yourself in iptables http://lartc.org/howto/ No need to go buying any routers...and if you did want a router then look to zebra first http://www.zebra.org/ It is a clone of Cisco IOS derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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