What works for me is to have a box with two interfaces between the edge of my network and my client access equipment. I use HTB and hash the clients into their specific classes based on the source IP (on the outbound interface) and the destination IP (on the inbound interface). For more details, check the configuratione example I posted yesterday. Regards Gideon On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 06:13, Lucas Aimaretto wrote: > hi there, > > which is the best way to shape traffic, but not only applied to the > inbound interface, but yes to each of the clients belonging to my lan > environment? is it clear? do I have to make filter rules for every > client matching their ip addresses? > > and also, I'd like to obtain graphs of the traffic generated by each > of the clients connected to the linux box. which program to use? > > thanx a lot > > regards > > lucas