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

[Clint Savage]

Sounds to me like pfSense would be the perfect utility for this.  I've used
it for well over a year, and have upgraded on it several times.  pfSense
does traffic shaping, firewalling, nat'ing and many other cool things
including VLANs and such.  I've got it working with two incoming connections
and it manages to easily keep the traffic separate.

I'd highly recommend you try it out before spending time you don't need to
learning iproute2.  I will say that understanding how to do iptables and
iproute is never a waste of time, but it might be quicker if you give
something a go and see how it works for you.

Cheers,

Clint

On 12/5/06, Nathan Lane [yho] <nathanderweiser at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tristan,
>
> we have decided that we don't want to do that.  The reason is that our
> network is so unique that the last appliance we used wouldn't configure
> corectly and did things like slow our gigabit network to 14 kbps, cause
> timeouts on our website, and timeouts on our client sites.  This is why we
> have concluded to use debian or red hat to shape our traffic using any of
> the available tools.  The problem is that I'm the "guru" and even I'm not
> exactly sure about how to do it.  I have the necessary tools I believe:
> iproute2, iptables, tcng, and others.  I know I probably only need one.  But
> anyway.  I'd like to know how to do it.  My company would like me to know
> how to do it, and so far everything short of Barnes and NOble has failed,
> just because I haven't tried them yet.  I just though someone on here would
> have some tips or experience in this realm of Linux.
>
> thanks again,
>
> Nathan
>
> *Tristan Rhodes <tristan.rhodes at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> 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
>
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