<snip> >I know there is hardware that can do this but I wondered if a linux box could > be used instead (and show to certain management types that Linux is wonderful). > Hell yes!
> I've found rshaper which may do what I want it do. I have a Linux box doing > nothing with two NICs installed. My theory is using rshaper on one NIC (which > would be connected to the server that would be at 512k in real life) I can give > them what they want. > > Has anyone used rshaper and if so, would my scenario work? > > Cheers, > > Shaun Hi, its quite easy to do the same thing with linux internal traffic shaping. I'd suggest any pentium with two lan cards and a copy of the latest cbq.init script from ftp.equinox.gu.net/pub/linux/cbq and you'll be away. Oh and a late 2.2 or 2.4 linux of you're choice. Cheers RodT ---------------------------------------------- Rod Tunks Hardware R&D Manager TPG Network, Canberra [EMAIL PROTECTED] (02)62851711 "bad or missing Coffee.sys - operator halted" ICQ: 4514607 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
