[FC] Bandwidth Management Guidance

[Deepak Shrestha]

On 7/18/07, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> 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.


Thank you all for giving me your valuable time and suggestion. I guess
LARTC or http://m0n0.ch/wall will most likely to solve my problem. I
guess I need sometime to do my homework. :-)

Thanks to you all & Have a Nice Day!