Dan are you able to reach your machine remotely? Which ports? Am I right in thinking that most of the ports are blocked by the ISP in springs?
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From: [email protected]
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dubailug] bandwidth reporting tool
Date: 25/06/06 10:00
Thanx Brad for valuable support.
The QOS solution looks perfect for my case. I will
definetly try to put it to use.
But the GUI for reporting is a must for me as the same
would be reviewed regularly by non-tech guys...
Anyone else that can help!!!!!
Prashant
--- Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]au > wrote:
> Prashant naik wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > Is anyone aware of a nice gui based linux tool
> > (freeware prefered)which could provide me with
> > bandwidth management and reporting tool.
> > I would also like to know, if it is possible to
> block
> > kazaa requests on a network on per user (or per
> > machine) bases???
>
> Thats a tough call.. you could do it using iptables
> and some clever matching rules.
> I have QoS set up on my network at home where all
> outbound packets get classified into 3 categories..
>
> All SSH, dns, OpenVPN, http, msn, irc and dcc
> packets are 1
> All ICMP and ftp packets are 2
> All Acks and udp packets are 3
> All the rest (which would be both gnutella and
> torrent) are 4
>
> Each bucket has a minimum reserved bandwidth except
> 4 which can be choked down to nothing of required.
> This allows me to saturate my outbound connection
> while still being able to VOIP, download
> effectively (as Acks are passed with priority) and
> remote access my machine.
>
> If you got clever with your mangling rules you could
> possibly detect and throttle from individual
> clients, but I'd suspect it would be more best guess
> than something positively effective.
> I'd start by creating a whitelist of services that
> are given priority, and then just shut down the
> bandwidth on selected clients outside that
> whitelist.
>
> As for gui tools.. vim is about as gui as I get, so
> I can't really help there I'm afraid.
>
> QoS does rock once it's properly configured though..
> it appears black magic at first, but once you
> wrap your head around it, it all begins to make
> sense and then it's just logic.
>
> As for reporting.. mrtg is about as fancy as I get..
> simple and effective though
>
> Brad
> --
> "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the
> ability
> to learn from the experience of others, are also
> remarkable
> for their apparent disinclination to do so." --
> Douglas Adams
>
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