I've got myself so confused I don't even know if I'm heading in the right direction. I'm trying to do traffic control on my RH8 LINUX system. I'm running several apps that appear to be outside of the scope for what cbq.init was designed to do. One of the apps is called BitTorrent (bitconjurer.org/bittorrent). It's a peer based file sharing protocol/application. The problem I'm having is it's connections are bidirectional and thus I'm not able to control incoming bandwidth. I am able to easily control outgoing bandwidth obviously. Now I understand pretty much why cbq.init doesn't limit incoming bandwidth. That would be the responsibility of my router. Unfortunately my router is my DSL modem. My question is are there any work around? Until a couple of weeks ago my networking experience was limited to system setup and I never really had to delve into routing concepts. I'm trying to read all I can but there really ain't much out there. Please excuse my stupidity but would it be somehow possible to add some kind of new route for packets coming from the internet to pass through so I can apply filters? Would realms be an appropriate tool for developing a solution? Is it as simple as changing my iptables? Am I just SOL? I'd be happy to RTFM if someone can point me to one or more docs and suggest the order I should read them. Right now I find the iptables, iproute2, tc stuff all hard to tie together and nearly every example is of a firewall routing to an internal LAN. I just can't see the forest through the trees right now. Is there a way I can get my LINUX box to route outside traffic through itself? Your help would be most appreciated. -ethan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
