[plug] Traffic Shaping

[Paul Dean]

Hi,

Have a look at 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping

Traffic Shaping via iptables TOS, packet queuing, and kernel space
modules.

It all sounds a little hard work but once working it's very effective
and easy to manage.

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On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:14:48 +0800
Mark Slatem <slatemfam at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hey Adrian, no, smoothwall does not do anything close to real traffic
> shaping, I did have a look at it, as well as endian firewall that
> uses wondershaper. It looks like I will probably have to build
> something myself,  unless perhaps  I can find someone who is further
> along the road than I am, with lets say a Layer 4 BSD based shaper
> <grin>, know of anyone?
> 
> Adrian Chadd wrote:On Mon, Sep 03, 2007, Mark Slatem wrote:
>   Hey all, I need to set up some type of traffic shaper, on some of
> our networks as we are starting to lose control of throughput and its 
> effecting critical services. I have looked at wondershaper, but this
> is fairly limited and does not allow shaping via ip address, only via
> port number.
> 
> Any ideas on a more comprehensive solution? maybe with some sort of
> web front-end to add or adjust priorities?
>     
> *shrug* I'm building a BSD based router/L4 shaper product at the
> moment. I'm sure smoething like Smoothwall has got traffic shaping
> capabilities.
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian
> 
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