[FC] Bandwidth Management Guidance

[taharka]

How do,

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:03 +0800, Deepak Shrestha 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.
> 
> 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. :-)
> 
> 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.

Have a look at this, http://m0n0.ch/wall

It's not Linux but Unix (FreeBSD to be exact) & will do exactly what
you're looking to do. If your spare computer has a CDROM/floppy drive,
you can yank that 10GB HDD & use it in something else. The CDROM version
of m0n0wall only needs the floppy drive to store the configuration as
the firewall/router runs in RAM.

> Thanks

Have a nice day!

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.