Traffic shaping... don't understand the instructions!

[Ow Mun Heng]

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
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