Hi, I am new to the Linux Advance Routing Project and to Policy Based Routing as implemented in Linux.... but I have been using Linux for 10 years so not _really_ a newbie.... Looking at the lartc.org website I came across the reference implementation of a traffic shaper...
I also have Matt Marsh's book on 'Policy Based Routing using Linux' which covers traffic shaping a bit in the later chapters.... but I am not crystal clear on it.... I have a linux box doing simple policy based routing for a fairly substantial private network and routing the resulting traffic in a policy based way to two different ISPs via T-1 (1.544 Mb/s) pipes... Sort of arbitrary poor-boy load balancing resulting in two distinct QOSes (i.e., heavily loaded and lightly loaded ;)... I would like to also experiment with traffic shaping and would welcome any thoughts that you might have regarding implementation in such a setup... Basically the PBR Linux box has two NICs.... Eth0 is facing the private network and is the default gateway for all private traffic... while eth1 is facing a DMZ LAN where the various ISPs and other private network services live.... My first thought was to run wondershaper as is and set the parameters to 3 Mb up and 3 Mb down (i.e., 2 x t-1).... But then I had a flash of common sense and decided to ask first if there might not be a better way.... ;) If anyone has any thoughts about traffic shaping in this environment or on the setup in general I would love to hear them... TIA. Any and all instruction gratefully received. Dave Sims Houston, Texas _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
