John,
: First of all, let me warn you, im not a deep *nix dude, i've used linux
: for some time now but never at this level, so bare with me.
Flasher! :) {You meant "bear with me"}
: I know my question most likely could be solved by reading the HOWTO,
: however, i wanted to hear if someone knew a simple and fast solution
: before i start reading 100's of pages.
Traffic control isn't terribly difficult, but it is conceptual. I'd
recommend reading the LARTC HOWTO [1] and Stef Coene's site [2].
: It's quite simple, i want to limit up outgoing traffic to 128kbit. All
: incoming should remain as maximum, only the outgoing should be
: affected.
Well....since incoming and outgoing are required for any connection,
you'll have to approach this from a different angle when you get ready to
write some traffic control classifiers (tc filter).
: Though, IF possible and not a MUST, i would like the intern network to
: remain 100mbit.
No problem. Take a look at the KPTD [3] to see that traffic control is
just about the last thing that happens to an outbound packet.
: Anyone know a simple solution to this?
Simplest place to start would be the wondershaper [4], but you'll need to
tweak it if you intend to just cap the bandwidth available for connections
initiated from the inside.
Good luck,
-Martin
[1] http://lartc.org/howto/
[2] http://www.docum.org/
[3] http://www.docum.org/stef.coene/qos/kptd/
[4] http://lartc.org/wondershaper
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Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
