> jakob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>Hi >>I have read the howto on qdisc's a few times but I cant figure out how to >>use the shaping capabilities to serve my needs. In the village whera I >>live we have created a wireless local network consisting of 10 houses. >> One >>of these houses has an ADSL connection and services this connection to >> the >>other houses. To gain access to the network a member must have an >>accesspoint in client mode, the idea is that if each house has to use a >>certain accesspoint (with a specific known ip address) to access the >>router then it must be possible to shape the traffic so no single house >>can dominate the out (and thus the incomming) traffic. >> >>The configuration: >> >>House with ADSL: A client house: >> ((o)) ((0)) >> | | (Known ip) >> ------------ eth0 ----| |---- -------- >>|Linux router|-------| AP | | AP |---| router | >>| SuSE 8.2 | ---- ---- -------- >> ------------ | | >> | ------ ------ >> eth1 | | PC 1 | | PC 2 | >> | ------ ------ >> __--__--__ >> | Internet | >> ---------- >> >>One house might need to connect 1 PC another house 3, but I need to be >>sure that one house doesn't swallow the whole bandwidth. Is this >> possible? >> >>Best Regards >>Jakob Simon-Gaarde >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ >> >> > Hi, > > You can use the tc program, and htb qdiscs to ensure that people are > guaranteed some bandwidth, so that one host cannot dominate the > network.As it is the Internet link that is the weak point, you need to > shape at the gateway. > > I am currently working on a script that deals out the bandwidth evenly > amongst hosts, so that when only one host uses the link, it gets full > speed, but if two are on it is 50/50, and so on. I hope to have it > finished in a month or so. Maybe you can use that > > Also, if it is p2p traffic you are worried about, you could try the > p2pshaper. I posted a link in a earlier post. > That sounds very cool (and fair :) ) how do you plan to detect how many hosts are using the gateway? idle traffic or ping-like check? Some clients may have a hardware router on the other end so it is allways on-line though maybe being idle for hours. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
