hi everyone, i work for a small ISP, and not too far from now, we are going to move all our colo- and web-servers to another datacenter/colocator. when doing this, i would like to add a traffic shaper to our configuration. now, i'm not exactly what you would call a networking guru, so i find this pretty difficult. i was searching for an easy-to-manage hardware appliance, but not with much luck. i've heard suggestions to create a 'bridge' using either debian w/ qos or freebsd w/ dummynet. i would prefer to do this with debian, because i know nothing of bsd, and do practically everything with debian since it's my favorite dist. the setup would be something like the following (we've got one routable IP C-class, say 1.2.3.0/24):
colo internet connection | | bandwidth shaping bridge ??? IP ??? | | switch | | --------------------------------------- | | | | ourcolo1 ourcolo2 web1 web2 ..etc 1.2.3.100 1.2.3.101 1.2.3.102 1.2.3.103 there may be things missing from this nice ascii art. if so, please let me know :-). does anyone have any suggestions on how i should go about this? does it matter what IP the bridge has? does anyone know of any good documentation which covers this kind of setup, or what software i should use? i would be forever grateful :-) kind regards, -rodi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]