> Hi, > > > As a newbie to QoS, I have several questions which I hope somebody can answer. > > -what is the system requerment to shape a 100Mbit fullduplex network. > > That depends on how you want to shape it, I guess. well I want to shape traffic and offer QoS for citrix clients. (printer traffic may burst to a certain limit if bandwith is available) It is quite simpel at the beginning but it can become more complex in future.. It should also create atomated reports > > -Is there a already a tool to report the shaped traffic (like there is ipacsum for ipchains) > > The tc program can display counters . Great.. a little bit more programming and maybe for example mrtg could be used.. > > -is it possible to build a transparant shaper (eg. a bridge from eth0 to eth1 (no ip's) and a console eth2 (with > > ipaddress)) > > Shaping will work on bridges, yes. Is there already some documentation about this? thanx in advance Patrick