I've been assigned the task of building a an ethernet bridge linux box to limit the traffic of our wireless isp and perform various other functions. I've chosen to use the lartc project as the basis for the bandwidth shaping portion of this system and have some questions. First off I was unable to get the policing filter to work for my application. All of the commands went through but I wasn't able to throttle incoming traffic. To throttle incoming traffic I set up a queue on the external bridge interface to limit outgoing traffic to the internal interface. The same setup on the internal interface works for outgoing bandwidth. This seems to work correctly. The system I am designing has to coexist and syncronize with a dhcp server that runs on the same box. Static addresses would make my job easier but that would be no fun! The problem with dhcp and traffic control is that users ips can change and so must traffic filters. I'm confused as to how to change traffic filters. The only way I've been able to change filters is by deleting them my specifying the priority number or preference number. I will need to be changing the ip address in the filters according to changes in the dhcp leases file. Is there another way to identify a filter other than by priority? Identification by flow-id would make sense, but I can't seem to get that to work. Any ideas? Hayden Myers Support Manager Skyline Network Technologies hayden@spinbox.com (410)583-1337 option 2 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
