Hello! I've just
subscribed to this list and i hope that someone can help
me....
I have a computer
where i have a Redhat 7.3 box with the following hardware
descriptions:
- Pentium MMX
233Mhz, 64 MB RAM 100Mhz., two 2.1 GB HDDs, 10 Mbps Lan card and an external US
Robotics 56K analog modem.
My eth0
interface has a private IP address that belongs to the class C 192.168.1.x
network and the ppp0 interface dials an ISP service phone to connect to the
internet.
I use this computer
to share the Dial-Up internet service with another 8 computers, i use squid 2.4
Stable 6 as a proxy and i´ve just allowed SMTP and POP3 IP masquerading to allow
non HTTP requests to go to the internet, therefore SQUID controls the bandwidth
and the few web sites that i want my users to access.
Now, that i have
described my network layout, i want to ask 2 questions, hoping that you cvan
help me:
1) SLOW PPP
CONNECTIONS:
When this computer
used to have Windows 2000 professional and Wingate 4.x i was able to connect at
4.5 - 4.9 Kbps rates. Now, with RH linux 7.3 i've tried everything in order to
tune up the PPPD daemon, the /etc/ppp/options file, modem strings, setserial
configurations and so on but the modem will only transfer at 3.5 - 3.8 Kbps
only... what could be wrong? is there something that i can do to finally boost
the speed of my dial-up connection?
2) KAZAA AND SQUID:
CBQíng THESE CONNECTIONS:
I have a friend and
coworker who uses Kazaa to download stuff... i´ve allowed him to do so because
he downloads cool stuff now and then that i also like :P however, that takes
over the whole bandwidth of this slow dialup connection so i would like to know
how to CBQ these connections so that he can download at 2 Kbps at most since i
cannot force Kazaa to go through Squid and use delay pools to slow down his
downloads.. or.. can i? ... his IP is 192.168.1.24 Please tell me if there is a
way to use Squid with Kazaa and use delay pools to limit the bandwidth (although
Kazaa only supports SOCKS servers) or if i have to use CBQ instead. If all
i can do is to use CBQ, please give me the right script to limit my friend's
connection to 2 Kbps over this slow dialup connection with the 56K external
modem.
Thank you in
advance,
Paul.
