Re: firewall/router with traffic shaping and dial-upfallback?

Yea, traffic shaping is a beautiful thing.  I bought one of these ActionTec
babies for this exact same purpose but was foiled by the door-stop concerns.
I eventually just put together a mini-ITX box, which, while being far more
costly, has the advantage of having enough power to do cutesy things like
generate graphs of bandwidth usage and maintain detailed activity logs.
Plus it saved me a heck of a lot of time... and time is money.

Anyway, with my traffic shaping scripts I'm able to have several uploads and
downloads going, continue serving web pages, and *still* maintain 100ms ping
times for all 22 people playing Americas Army on one of my servers.  And it
all auto-adjusts to make sure the bandwidth is being maximally utilized.
Very very cool.  The only time I ever have latency issues now is when there
is congestion up the link at my ISP.

I'd still like to get traffic shaping to work on the ActionTec, as a backup
router if nothing else.  Right now I have an old desktop sitting at the
ready to take this duty if necessary.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Cramer" <[email protected]>
To: "ActionHack Mailing List" <actionhack-W7/[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [actionhack] firewall/router with traffic shaping and
dial-upfallback?


> "Bruce D. Lightner" <lightner-2huV/[email protected]> writes:
>
> > The term "traffic shaping" is new to me.  More research is in order, bit
it
> > seems like what we want to do, namely "failover", looks like it is
> > somewhere out there.
>
> Traffic shaping is different than "failing over" the link.  Traffic
shaping
> establishes priorities for different types of traffic.  For example, folks
> doing interactive work (e.g. ssh, http) along with bulk data traffic
> (e.g. ftp) generally want the interactive protocols to take priority.  On
> the other hand, if there's no interactive traffic, they want the bulk data
> transfers to use as much of the line bandwidth as possible.
>
> One way to do this is using the "wondershaper" package.  Here are a few
> references to wondershaper and traffic shaping under Linux:
>
> http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
> http://lartc.org/
>
> Sam
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