Re: [LARTC] Traffic shaping an apartment building

[Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>]

On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:25, Allen Armstrong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I live in a rural community where adsl and cable is not widely available. 
> I correctly have an option of using adsl or cable at my location.  Ten
> miles away my friends apartment building has no option of cable or adsl.  I
> set-up a wireless link between my friends apartment building and my house. 
> It works great for him and me and the adsl company doesn't care because
> they don't cover the area and we aren't going over our bandwidth
> allotments.
>
> Old setup:
>
> 	ADSL (dynamic)
> 	NAT linux box ( inside 192.168.1.0) (486s)
> 	My internal network (192.168.1.0) (Just a small network really!)
> 	Wireless radio (192.168.1.0)
> 	Wireless radio (192.168.1.0)
> 	His internal network (192.168.1.0)
>
>
> We have been using this set-up for few months and we share the bandwidth
> and he paid the costs of wireless radios.  His apartment got wind what we
> are doing and want a connection.  To make a long story short we want to run
> a cable to the phone room and then up to each apartment so logistically we
> can do it.  However, I am not interested in giving everyone in this
> apartment a full connection speed connection to the internet.  I don't know
> them. :-)
>
> I have set-up a redhat 7.2 box /w 2.4.7 kernel all the stuff I need seems
> to be in built-in the kernel.  Reading the list archives I setup a
> proxy-arp bridge and its been working fine.
>
>
> 	ADSL (dynamic)
> 	NAT linux box ( inside 192.168.1.0) (486s)
> 	My internal network (192.168.1.0) (Just a small network really!)
> 	Redhat 7.2 box 2.4.7 (Proxy-arp with 2 nics)
> 	Wireless radio (192.168.1.0)
> 	Wireless radio (192.168.1.0)
> 	His internal network (192.168.1.0)
>
> I had look at http://www.docum.org/ and http://ds9a.nl/lartc/.  I just not
> sure what I need to do next I have read the documents at the latter and it
> seems confusing to me.  What I would like to do is give almost everyone in
> the apartment a 64k connection with exception of my friends machines (384k)
> and apartment manager machine (384k).
I have a better idea. ;-)

You can give erveyone the full bandwith.  But if you your friend is 
downloading (or you), he gets more bandwith.  I think that's more fair then 
limiting everyone to 64k.
And I suggest you use HTB and CBQ.  But you will have to patch the kernel and 
iproute to do so.
You can do it with CBQ, but it's much more complicated.

What kind of upload/download do you have on the ADSL link and the wireless 
radio?

Stef

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