Re: [Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Simon Hobson
Bill Shirley wrote: >Because my LAN is 1 Gb I don't see how the incoming traffic on the >internet is ever going to trigger traffic shaping on the LAN. It's not about what speed the interface is, it's about what speeds you configure in traffic shaping. Put simply, if you configure traffic shapin

Re: [Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Eastep
On 09/27/2012 12:49 PM, Tom Eastep wrote: >> >> The IFB is going to drop packets when the connection gets saturated. I >> just want it to be equally distributed. If one PC is downloading at 500 >> KB on one connection and another PC has two connections at 500 KB, the >> 2nd PC will get twice as

Re: [Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Eastep
On 09/27/2012 12:36 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: > > On 9/27/2012 2:03 PM, Tom Eastep wrote: >> On 09/27/2012 10:24 AM, Bill Shirley wrote: >>> I'm experiencing a problem with masquerade downloads saturating my >>> internet connection. I've implemented an IFB and now am looking into >>> flow keys. Alt

Re: [Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Bill Shirley
On 9/27/2012 2:03 PM, Tom Eastep wrote: > On 09/27/2012 10:24 AM, Bill Shirley wrote: >> I'm experiencing a problem with masquerade downloads saturating my >> internet connection. I've implemented an IFB and now am looking into >> flow keys. Although I've read the documentation, I'm not sure I h

Re: [Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Eastep
On 09/27/2012 10:24 AM, Bill Shirley wrote: > I'm experiencing a problem with masquerade downloads saturating my > internet connection. I've implemented an IFB and now am looking into > flow keys. Although I've read the documentation, I'm not sure I have > this right. Can someone help? > > /etc/

[Shorewall-users] Understanding IFB

2012-09-27 Thread Bill Shirley
I'm experiencing a problem with masquerade downloads saturating my internet connection. I've implemented an IFB and now am looking into flow keys. Although I've read the documentation, I'm not sure I have this right. Can someone help? /etc/shorewall/params: MID_IF=eth0 MID_IF_TC=1 INET1_IF=e