On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:46:49PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > if you have a Linux box connected to the DSL router, you can do some > fancy-schmancy IPtables and even bandwidth management.
As previously mentioned, I have a bridge+firewall running GNU/Linux with Linux 2.4.26-brnf5. This is an old Compaq Presario 425 unit with two NE2000 10Mbps ISA NICs. For some reason, traffic reporting provided by /proc/net/dev (which is read by ifconfig) and IPTraf doesn't seem right. For example, I'm downloading an ISO right now, and IPTraf on my box reports 63.2KB/s total traffic. IPTraf on the bridge+firewall only reports 15.4KB/s on eth0 and 16.1KB/s on eth1. Really weird. Would this perhaps have anything to do with the NICs? I have not yet tested replacing the bridge+firewall with a newer machine with Intel or 3Com PCI NICs, largely because it works well enough as an invisible firewall for our needs. I'd really love to be able to use it to provide consolidated DSL bandwidth use, though. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
