> -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: December 27, 2001 2:20 AM > To: Allen Armstrong; lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [LARTC] Traffic shaping an apartment building > > > On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:25, Allen Armstrong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I live in a rural community where adsl and cable is not > widely available. > > I correctly have an option of using adsl or cable at my > location. Ten > > miles away my friends apartment building has no option of > cable or adsl. I > > set-up a wireless link between my friends apartment > building and my house. > > It works great for him and me and the adsl company doesn't > care because > > they don't cover the area and we aren't going over our bandwidth > > allotments. > > > > Old setup: > > > > ADSL (dynamic) > > NAT linux box ( inside 192.168.1.0) (486s) > > My internal network (192.168.1.0) (Just a small network really!) > > Wireless radio (192.168.1.0) > > Wireless radio (192.168.1.0) > > His internal network (192.168.1.0) > > > > > > We have been using this set-up for few months and we share > the bandwidth > > and he paid the costs of wireless radios. His apartment > got wind what we > > are doing and want a connection. To make a long story > short we want to run > > a cable to the phone room and then up to each apartment so > logistically we > > can do it. However, I am not interested in giving everyone in this > > apartment a full connection speed connection to the > internet. I don't know > > them. :-) > > > > I have set-up a redhat 7.2 box /w 2.4.7 kernel all the > stuff I need seems > > to be in built-in the kernel. Reading the list archives I setup a > > proxy-arp bridge and its been working fine. > > > > > > ADSL (dynamic) > > NAT linux box ( inside 192.168.1.0) (486s) > > My internal network (192.168.1.0) (Just a small network really!) > > Redhat 7.2 box 2.4.7 (Proxy-arp with 2 nics) > > Wireless radio (192.168.1.0) > > Wireless radio (192.168.1.0) > > His internal network (192.168.1.0) > > > > I had look at http://www.docum.org/ and http://ds9a.nl/lartc/. I just not > sure what I need to do next I have read the documents at the latter and it > seems confusing to me. What I would like to do is give almost everyone in > the apartment a 64k connection with exception of my friends machines (384k) > and apartment manager machine (384k). > >I have a better idea. ;-) > >You can give erveyone the full bandwith. But if you your friend is > >downloading (or you), he gets more bandwith. I think that's more fair then > >limiting everyone to 64k. I thought of that but the people at this apartment are cheap. :( I was going to charge them 10$ a month X 20 to cover the cost of the access and to recover the cost of the wireless equipment. If they pay more I will up their rate. Our eventual goal is get them on their own dsl modem. > >And I suggest you use HTB and CBQ. But you will have to patch the kernel and > >iproute to do so. > >You can do it with CBQ, but it's much more complicated. > > I hear a lot about the buzzword CBQ. What do I if I wish to follow the CBQ route? Do I have to re-compile my stock Redhat 7.2 kernel? Everything looks like it is a module when it comes to QOS in this kernel. QOS is all new to me but Linux and routing isn't. :) Tomorrow I am going to re-read the sections on both sites again. > >What kind of upload/download do you have on the ADSL link and the wireless > >radio? When we first did the link we didn't get that good transfer rates 64-128 k, he slapped another 2000$ for some Amps now we are getting about 6 meg link reliably. The ADSL I am getting 3 megs down 512 k up. Allen Armstrong
