[sllug-members]: DHCP Configuration - Ultimately to be a traffic shaper

[Tristan Rhodes]

Nathan Lane [yho] wrote:
> Hi, I have a question that should not be so difficult for me, but it is 
> for some reason.  I am doing two things.  First I am setting up two 
> computers to handle traffic shaping.  I have loaded iproute2 and tcng on 
> both systems.  Their hardware other than the hard drives is completely 
> identical.  They're older, but we don't really care.  So I'd like either 
> a nice tutorial or some personal experiences on setting up traffic 
> shaping.  I understand the shell and basic Linux stuff, mostly - I am 
> running Kanotix Debian.  The second thing I am needing to do is I need 
> to set up dhcp on these computers in order to test the traffic shaper on 
> its own subnet.  Each of the computers has two nics.  I wand the 
> computers to server 10.x.x.x for ip addresses to client machines, and I 
> want traffic shaping to occur on a 192.168.x.x subnet.  Am I explaining 
> enough?  Anybody who thinks they can help, please respond.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Nathan
> 

Nathan,

I would recommend using an open source network appliance such as pfSense, which would allow you to 
setup packet shaping in just a few clicks of a web-interface.  (Not to mention the dozens of other 
features that are included)  I highly recommend pfSense.

http://pfsense.org/

Tristan Rhodes