Does anyone here implement traffic shaping with shorewall? I need to shape BitTorrent traffic on my network so that upload/downloads do not overwhelm normal function or, even more importantly, my imminent conversion to VOIP for all telephone service. I followed the shorewall documentation guide but am not sure if what I have done is the Right Way Of Doing Things. Nor am I satsified with the results so far. I am using CableVision's Optimum Online for my broadband connection and am about to install SunRocket for my VOIP. I will be attacing the relevant file settings I have used. I'd appreciate any help with tweaking this configuration to maximuze my throughput. My goal is to ensure that, regardless of the number of torrents being downloaded/uploaded, my VOIP quality does not degrade and that my web/email/etc access works as quickly as it does without the BitTorrent active. By the way, I use port forwarding to forward specific BitTorrent ports to specific inbound computers behind my firewall. This way, I can maximize my BitTorrent download/upload performance since the connection is two-way. I still want this limited, however, so that it does not eat up all my bandwidth. This is a home network with about 5 nodes, several of whom are teenagers. The network configuration uses a simple two-NIC server; the modem connects to eth1 and the internal network is on eth0. Finally, would incorporation of ipp2p into my rules help me in any way? My kernel (gentoo) is already build to support ipp2p and I already have the module loaded and iptables is working with it. So if ipp2p would be helpful I'm already set up for it. Thanks for any help. Here are my files: tcdevices: eth1 3800kbit 800kbit tcrules: 1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-request 1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp echo-reply 2 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp - 50001:50009 2 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp - 50011:50019 2 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp - 50021:50029 tcclasses: eth1 1 100kbit full 1 tcp-ack,tos-minimize-delay eth1 2 100kbit 200kbit 2 eth1 3 full/3 full 3 default -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
