[plug] advanced routing

[Ryan Smith]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:19:18PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20030926053430.GA814 at tesla>
> on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:34:30PM +0800, Ryan Smith wrote:
> > i have a 56k internet connection, and i was wondering if anyone had an
> > idea of how to limit my bandwidth so i have at least 2k for webpages. i
> > tried doing this using squid, but it started getting very messy when i
> > had to use socks for some programs. Then i stumbled across advanced
> > routing and thought that it could be done using this method, only the
> > how-tos on the net dont tell you very much so i didnt get very far.
> 
> Hmm...if this were BSD I'd say "altq". I can't help you, but just to
> clarify: you want 2kb/s reserved for *you* making connections to *other*
> people's websites? Not quite sure how squid was helping you with this
> (that's my ignorance), and I don't have any Linux answers to this
> problem, either :)

ok i think i left out a few minor details. my internet connection is
shared over my network. Basically I want to use bandwidth limiting
somehow so when i open web pages they will open at about 1-2kbps, instead of not opening at all. I found a how-to that uses delay pools.
http://www.linux.org/docs/lpd/howto/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/

sorry for the lack of information
Ryan
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