Re: [LARTC] Shaping traffic on heavily oversubscribed links?

2004-11-25 Thread Rick Marshall
it's worse than that. we faced the same problems in china. an oversubscribed adsl system. in fact there is more than one problem with the public internet in these scenarios. the first as you have identified is the lack of capacity. then you can't control the downstream routing - eg traffic from

Re: [LARTC] SEPARATING VOIP AND SURFING

2004-11-24 Thread Rick Marshall
i know this will sound a bit flippant - it's not meant to be. why not get rid of the cisco routers - i haven't found a need for them yet. my networks work much better without them ;) rick Ricardo Soria wrote: Dear Chris: Thanks for your sugestion. But my situation is really more complicated

Re: [LARTC] SEPARATING VOIP AND SURFING

2004-11-17 Thread Rick Marshall
Andy Furniss wrote: Ricardo Soria wrote: 1. So, starting at 80% of total 512kbit bandwidth (410kbit), there would be a waste of 102kbit. Is this completely necessary?? I think this is to ensure I have the queue on my side, and the queue is not on the side of the ISP. But, I fell tempted to thi

Re: [LARTC] vpn control

2004-01-05 Thread Rick Marshall
linux-linux using ip tunnels - modprobe ip_gre eg ip tunnel add china mode gre remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx local \ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ttl 255 ip link set china up ip addr add 192.168.1.11 dev china ip route add 192.168.5.0/24 dev china ps - any hackers - don't bother - the firewalls will only accept co

[LARTC] vpn control

2004-01-04 Thread Rick Marshall
we have an external 2Mbit dsl connection and running on it are several gre vpn tunnels so far i've given priority to the vpn traffic (using htb) can i now put rules in for the tunnels to control traffic within each tunnel (that's where our video conferencing etc runs)? or can i only control the r