On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:51, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 10:51 AM 7/9/2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 08:13, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > > An even more attractive alternative: Shorewall (my preferred firewall > > > package) does have a place to put "tc" commands so they're executed by the > > > firewall. I'll try to understand and implement Ow Mun Heng's script and > > put > > > it in /etc/shorewall/tcstart. > > > >Actually, if you don't want to integrate it with shorewall, it's also > >fine. You just need to create a new initscript for it. > > Good Lord, no. Why do more work? Shorewall runs my firewall, it has a place > to put tc rules... anything else is duplicating Tom Eastep's work. No no, > I'll happily use the Shorewall facilities. Because in OSS, all of it means choices.. You can choose to complicate matters if you want. :-) Didn't you read the article "Linux Users are Spoiled?" http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/25/1149234.shtml PS :I frequently bang my head against the wall in frustration because I made a stupid choice and had to recover from it.. Then I pick myself up and learn from it. Eperience _is_ the best teacher No? -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:09:06 up 2:15, 3 users, load average: 0.82, 1.65, 1.42