[Gllug] QOS and firewalls

[Ashley Evans]

On Friday 25 July 2003 10:17 pm, John Edwards wrote:
> 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/
>
>

A gui? Isn't this a Linux list :)

Thanks for the advice I'll try out ipcop.

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