On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 14:03:43 +0800, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Fedora for quite sometime but never done this. All > my computer in LAN are connnected via switch to ADSL modem router for > internet. What I wanted to do is to make the fedora as gateway and > control the bandwidth of rest of the LAN so that each station can get > the dedicated fixed bandwith (unlike the current setup where network > slows down if one user are downloading many files). > > I searched the google and found out about linuxrouter project but also > found out that it is dead already. The LARTC document is still useful if you want to develop your own traffic control policy script. Policing (which is what you are stuck with for inbound traffic) isn't covered very well in that document. There are bits and pieces of documentation at different places that cover using IMQ and IFB psuedo network devices to help. There are also ways to have accumalators aggregate traffic in useful ways for doing policing that are not covered in the LARTC document. You could also search the archives of the lartc list as someone may have posted a script or at least given a more detailed answer there, as the essence of your problem is a common issue. > I hope there is some new advancement in this area in fedora and also > hoping to use the Graphical management also if possible. I am not sure > of what I am looking for exactly. Can somebody guide me on what to > look for and what are available to accomplish this task. I hope also > it will not be a rocket science. :-) Well you can install iproute (if it isn't already) and have the commands available to implement your policy. > Currently I have a spare computer (PIII 733 MHz 256 MB RAM and 10GB > HDD) but I don't know if this hardware will be suitable for this task. That's overkill. You could use a cheap router flashed with ddwrt or openwrt to handle the task.
