Re: [LARTC] general shaping recommendations

2003-12-21 Thread Damion de Soto
Hi Martin, There's no reason not to use ingress policers if you wish. I would recommend, however, shaping on both the inbound and outbound traffic. If I'm running a web proxy on the gateway, then I would need ingress policer to limit the download bandwith for web requests. How will the ingress po

Re: [LARTC] general shaping recommendations

2003-12-18 Thread Martin A. Brown
Damion, : I am wondering, what is the best way to do some 'generic shaping' on a : firewall/gateway box. Currently, I'm just running a wondershaper : variant on the WAN interface. htb qdiscs for outbound, and ingress : policer for inbound. The wondershaper is well-designed for the standalone

[LARTC] general shaping recommendations

2003-12-18 Thread Damion de Soto
Hi everyone, I am wondering, what is the best way to do some 'generic shaping' on a firewall/gateway box. Currently, I'm just running a wondershaper variant on the WAN interface. htb qdiscs for outbound, and ingress policer for inbound. Now, assuming most traffic (except DNS requests etc) goes t