On Thursday 27 December 2001 07:40, Sumit Pandya wrote: > -- Stef Write : > >> Take a look at www.allot.com. They have boxes that can shape traffic > > (these boxes run linux with a web-interface and use CBQ to do the traffic > shaping). They cost about 15.000 USD and they do a poor job. On the other > hand, I can write you some scripts, you take an old PC with 2 NIC's and you > pay ma as much as you would paid Allot :-) > Its wonderful, It means we can also shape traffic "from and to" in our > favorite Linux Box. But sadly on our list I didn't found any clue to > implement this. Infact what I found is impossibility of this solution. My > quoriocity to know if there is existing solution, was against possibility > of solution, not to buy solution ;-). > > >> What you want to do is so easy that you can do it by yourself. Just > >> take > > a look at the howto, try some things out and post it to this mailing list. > We will be happy to help you if you encounter a problem. > Hey just a min. HOWTO is documented for limiting one-way traffic. Once > again I want to clear here that total traffic mean "from and to" a computer > must be limited to certain limit. Okay then help me, and many list members > too ;-), and write the way or script to limiting total-traffic of a > computer. Or otherwise lets go ahead to beat system like allot and > coordinate for solution for this. > Thanks for taking time to write in. It's very easy. If yoy want to shape traffic from and to a computer, you need a dedicated linux box that you can put in front of that computer and that will act as a gateway. 1 NIC connected to that box and 1 NIC connected to the rest of the network. You really needs this because you can only shape traffic that leaves the NIC. When you have a dedicated box, you can shape on both NIC's and so can shape in both directions. So we only speak from shaping in one direction, but with 2 NIC's, you can shape in both directions. Allot is doing the same thing. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx More QOS info : http://www.docum.org/ Title : "Using Linux as bandwidth manager"
