No clue Chris, but I'd be interested in how you accomplish this as well. I've got plans to replace my current firewall machine (P166/128MB ram) in the not so distant future and build/customize more of it myself as it's a Smoothwall install. Shawn On 01 Nov 2002 17:17:22 -0600 Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> wrote: > Hi all, got a good one for ya. > > I'm about to upgrade my Internet connection from a 56k dialup to an > 144k IDSL. I was just wondering if anyone had any info on some > bandwidth throttling. I'd like to limit bandwidth used for services > (ssh, ftpd-maybe, httpd) and apps. I'd like to be able to access my > server machine remotely, wget the latest isos/rpms/tar.gzs, and still > be able to route net access (online games, web, email) for my other 3 > machines without any one service/app/machine hogging all my bandwidth. > > I think I can do this with iptables (never looked into it much) or > maybe even xinetd? (never looked into it at all), but I'm not sure how > intelligent these are, or if they're even the right apps to do it. > I'd hate to download an iso at 20kps when nothing else is accessing > the net, and I'd hate to allow a limit to ftp when I'm the only one > who will ever use it and that could at max be 2-3 times a month. > > Well those are the key points I'm looking for answers on. Any advice, > info (man, howto, etc), or horror/success stories would be great. I > got about a month before I get hooked up I'm sure, so I got some good > reading/planning time on my hands. > > Thanks again in advance. > Chris Frederick > > p.s. In case it matters, the server routing all this is a AMD Athlon > 800Mhz, 384M SDRAM (might be 512M, I keep forgetting), running > Mandrake 8.2 that may change to 9.0, or even to Red Hat or Slackware > depending on how much time I have to configure it. >