Phill, I spent a lot of time with this trying to get usable interactive internet (primarily web browsing) on a DSL line that was hosting email.
This is what worked for me, your mileage may vary! Unless you are uploading a lot while using SSH or VOIP, traffic shaping probably won't do you much good. But I would do it anyway! I would set the in-bandwidth to 0 to not bother traffic shaping inbound traffic. The most critical setting is the out-bandwidth. Using the rated line speed of your connection is probably a bad idea. In my case, it was easy to figure out because I was on a saturated link. If I set this too high, the connection slowed to a halt. If I set it too low, the connection was fine but I wasn't getting the full potential of the link. So I found that tipping point - and set it a bit lower. In my case, the real value turned out to be only around 70kbps. What I would recommend is to somehow saturate your link on the upload side (multiple FTPs and perhaps some bittorrenting?) until your connection (i.e. web browsing) starts to crawl. Then lower your out-bandwidth, do a shorewall restart, and repeat these steps until web browsing speeds improve. That should get you in the vicinity. Err on the low side. - Bob Coffman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
