On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Geoff . wrote: > I have a linux box pentium133 running redhat7.0 2.2.18 kernel. > I wish to use this as a firewall/masquerading router to share a ppp > connection (at first), to two or three pc's via eth0, 192.168.0.x > > A few questions hopefully someone can answer. > > 1) Will u32 filters on dest ip work with masquerading, ie at the output to > the individual pc's? I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you intend to use the filter in order to seperate the traffic to the different PC's. Yes, that can be done. > 2) Is u32 available in non-iproute2 machines? ( I am unable to compile it) Try harder. Compile it elsewhere, What is the exact problem? I even believe RedHat provides binary RPM versions, not sure though. > 3) I wish to fairly divide the bandwidth between 2 machines,and have full > bandwidth available to either when there is no demand from the other, which > is my best option? Read the HOWTO. Use seperate classes. You can set equal priorities and rates. Try it.
