From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nic-lartc@studentergaarden.dk Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:24:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Distro ready out of the box Message-Id: <471966F1.6050508@studentergaarden.dk> List-Id: References: <4718C18B.7070106@scasinet.com> In-Reply-To: <4718C18B.7070106@scasinet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Debian 4.0 has all I need including iptables and tc, but _not_ L7 filter or ipp2p :-( You should look into Zeroshell, which has L7 (haven't tried it) http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9446520379.html http://www.zeroshell.net/eng Shorewall appears to have ipp2p (but apparently not L7?) and it looks like there are add ons to IPCop. It is sad it is not easier... I looked into L7 etc. and ended up deciding that is is such an imperfect way of classifying data that it is better (for me at least) to instead choose a different policy - prioritize ssh, VOIP and web by port and then prevent each host from hogging more than their fair share of the total bandwidth. But e.g. DD-WRT (embedded distro for wireless routers like the WRT54GL) seems to do a quite good job of it (with L7). sincerely, Nicolas Riccardo (SCASI) wrote: > hi all, > > I'm writing not for technical problems but for a simple question. > Do You know if there is a distro which is ready for traffic shaping > etc. 'out of the box'? > I mean a distro which does not require patching the kernel and/or > iptables and/or installing from source etc. and gives the user most of > the tools needed (imq, ipp2p, l7filter and so on). > > many thanks > riki _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc