[newbie] Sharing bandwidth
I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing bandwidth
On Thursday 16 January 2003 23:11, Dennis Myers wrote: I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated. Hmmm, I've got a 512Kb/sec (in real life about 60k/s) cable connection with up to 5 machines connected through a smoothwall firewall. Never really noticed a speeddrop though, if there were more machines downloading simultaneously. I do notice a speeddrop during 'prime time' when there are more people logging on in my neighborhood than the local headend can handle. Maybe you should consider setting up a proxy server if it'll help keep the wife out of your hair=:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing bandwidth
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:11, Dennis Myers wrote: I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 That would be tough to dynamically balance bandwidth between two systems without some type of extra device. What you can do tho, is throttle your bandwidth. Check out larc.org. -- ~Brandon http://www.vanderberg.net Linux 2.4.19-16mdk - I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Sharing bandwidth
On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 11:11 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated. You need Traffic shaping. It needs to be enabled in your kernel. I do not know about IPCop, but I know shorewall supports traffic shaping. http://www.shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm And the Traffic shaping HOWTO so you can do it yourself in iptables http://lartc.org/howto/ No need to go buying any routers...and if you did want a router then look to zebra first http://www.zebra.org/ It is a clone of Cisco IOS derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sharing bandwidth
On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:34 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:11, Dennis Myers wrote: I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 That would be tough to dynamically balance bandwidth between two systems without some type of extra device. What you can do tho, is throttle your bandwidth. Check out larc.org. Yea, I was afraid of the answers. Well, I am going to check on the cost of doubling my bandwidth and look in to throtling my comp before my wife throttles me. I tried the larc.org and could not find a website. Other larc.net and a gazillion other larcs didn't look like what I needed. Thanks for the help guys, I will fit this into figuring out how to do video capture and editing. What fun! -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
