From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:09:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] The Wonder Shaper problem Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Rudi Hansen wrote: > Is that really the only way it can be done? > I would really like to be able to do this without putting the Linux machine > between the network and my ADSL Router. > For the linux box to do the shaping, all the traffic must go in to, and out of its interfaces. There's a small chance you might be able to get away with using a single network card and aliased interfaces in the linux machine, but this would make traffic shaping much more difficult than it needs to be (and probably slower too). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/