From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ajpearce Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:17:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Hardware solution? (or v.easy software fix instead) Message-Id: <27251cb805012015176990075b@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <27251cb80501201407a89427a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <27251cb80501201407a89427a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org The linksys linux router sounds ideal. Has anyone setup bandwidth management on it before though? Sounds like a tall order? On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:21:00 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Thursday 20 January 2005 17:07, ajpearce wrote: > > > So I need an answer to avoid arguments. > > > > - Is there a plush hardware solution to the problem? > > You could always get one of those Linksys routers that runs Linux and > configure Linux traffic control on it. > > > > 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: > > L7-Filter hasn't been picking up Kademilia so filtering eDonkey tends to be > difficult. ipp2p might be better about this, but I haven't tried it. I just > filter based on IP for p2p since I only have a single box that does any p2p. > > > > http://www.metamorpher.de/fairnat/ > > fairnat ought to let you share bandwidth out between groups of machines, so > you and your roommate ought to be able to split up the bandwidth. > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/