On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:19, ariel@fismat.umich.mx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> im new to this stuff, before this, i was using hardware to manage my
> bandwidth.
>
> I have a wireless AP (hostap) with a good connection. What i want is to
> shape my traffic to restrict each one of my wireless clients to a speci=
fic
> rate. Two to 33.6K, one to 128K, one to 256Kbps, some to 512K, and one =
to
> 1024K ...
>
> I've read chapter 9 of the lartc-howto, it says it is possible, but is =
not
> really clear to me how to do this stuff. Do i need two eth cards and ma=
ke
> a bridge? I read that HTB is better than CBQ, so im trying to use HTB.
A bridge is easy to put in an existing network because you don't have to=20
reconfigure the network.
> Im using DHCP for my clients, so is this possible by just using their
> MAC's? Has anyone any script to make things easier?
Yes. You can use the mac address with iptables to mark the packets. Thi=
s=20
mark can be used to put the traffic in the cass you want.
> I'll appreciate any link or info about this...
Have you found www.docum.org ?
> is there any shearch tool for the mailing-archive of lartc?
No idea ...
Stef
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stef.coene@docum.org
"Using Linux as bandwidth manager"
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