[Gllug] QOS and firewalls

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:51:55PM +0100, Ashley Evans wrote:
> 
> I'm just about to se-up my broadband and I'm wondering about firewalls. I'm 
> currently using Smoothwall with a 56k modem but when dsl is installed I will 
> be sharing the connection with a few others. To that end I would like to have 
> QOS running to ensure peer to peer programs have a lower traffic prioority 
> than web-traffic and gaming.
> 
> Any suggestions as to a nice solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ashley.

You really need a 2.4 kernel to do QoS as detailed in the Linux 
Advanced Routing and Traffic Control howto:
	http://www.lartc.org/

IPCop is similar to Smoothwall and version 1.3.0 will work with 
the wondershaper script detailed in howto. The next version 
(1.3.1) will include a GUI for configuring a basic QoS setup.
	http://www.ipcop.org/


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