I'm moving to a new place and my new flatmate wants a router because he likes the cleaness of it all in a non geeky way which I can understand. This means it's going to be hard for me to pursude him to let me run a computer as a router to act as bandwidth cop. But I don't fancy trying to use ssh, VNC and games while he's using WindowsUpdate or p2p. So I need an answer to avoid arguments. - Is there a plush hardware solution to the problem? As a backup I've been looking into bandwidth scripts for an easy and sure way to do the job. I've tried using htb.init and a smoothwall module to do it but neither seemed to work. Now, I could spend ages trying to get it working and so forth but when it comes to this I'm sharing with someone else so I need something that will work brilliantly and straight off. If I go for the computer option and I'm able to pull it off I might as well make it a fileserver and use it as a single computer to download stuff on (so bittorrent, eDonkey and so we have 1 computer left on and not 3. If so what approach would you take for this? Use my own setup but binary parts to be sure it will work including kernel, iptables and iproute? - or should I take a distro setup for this and add stuff to that instead? I need: - samba - as many p2p programs as possible - maybe other server software - something to download with, say wget What would be your approach to this? I want to find a solution that involves less steps to make mistakes on because I haven't had it working properly yet. Here are some links to scripts and the like I found in order of interest: http://www.smidsrod.no/products/firewall/supershaper/ http://www.metamorpher.de/fairnat/ #complex but hopeful: http://www.digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/#howitworks http://users.skynet.be/cbqinit/ http://www.chronox.de/tc+filter/limit.conn-0.2.bz2 http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pyshaper/#screenshot #proxy based limiter: http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay/ #comphrehensive: http://bwm-tools.pr.linuxrulz.org/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
