davil Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I was wondering is there a linux distro that you could install on a machine with two nics for bandwidth shaping/throttling or whatever it's called. (a bit like the way smoothwall works) - I do a bit of work for a hotel here in Ireland and they have a DSL line (7Mb down,784Kb up) and now and again they have speed problems surfing hotel sites etc. which is an essential part of their business, and their I.T. company based elsewhere has trouble logging in via logmein etc. and after some quick investigation I found out that they give free wifi and wired internet access to their customers and it's all on the same line!!! They're all on one LAN and they're trying their best to not get a second line in due to the current economic climate. There were speed issues yesterday for example and I did some checking with wireshark (learned nothing as I don't think I know how to use it properly) and I got a trial version of PRTG traphic graffer and I found out that nobody was taking the bandwidth at the time (although I think I got there just a few minutes too late) - the local pings to Dublin (30miles) went back to 50ms, which although terrible by US standards, was ok. when the speed issues were there we had pings of 500ms and above... Anyway, to get back to the point, I was wondering if there is some software or a linux distro that can be used to allow certain IPs more bandwidth than others, and/or prioritise HTTP traffic or block P2P, and I could put this "router" PC between the ADSL router and the LAN switch ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLuNK Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 iptables? You could limit certain ports depending on the IP address, Also having different subnets per department would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Install PFsense and setup QoS (quality of service). This will allow you to block certain traffic, rate limit and de-prioritize certain traffic and prioritize stuff like http traffic. Its also free. You will just need a reliable PC, so something like a low end core 2 will do fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 why dont you just get a cheapo linksys router and throw dd-wrt on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I've had issues with QoS on a DD-WRT powered WRT54G, craps out soon as the throughput on the WAN goes above 20Mb. DD-WRT is nice though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I've had issues with QoS on a DD-WRT powered WRT54G, craps out soon as the throughput on the WAN goes above 20Mb. DD-WRT is nice though. yeah i suppose if theres heavy traffic from multiple stations a wrt54g would failsauce, but you could probably get a wrt310n pretty cheap, maybe 60-80 bucks, or a nice super G router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinuxOne Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Get a Linksys WRT54G router and throw the Tomato firmware on there. Then use the QoS setting on such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Yep try Tomato on Linksys WRT54g, or build yourself a Smoothwall box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davil Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 Thanks for all the posts guys. for some reason I didn't get an email telling me there were replies. I'll look into smoothwall QoS as I have installed smoothwall before and have an idea how it works. a quick search reveals this mod: http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7922 so I'll look into that also. I'd love to get to grips with iptables but I'm not sure I have the time to learn it at the moment. As for linksys + DD-WRT / tomato - I've already got the hotel to buy a TP-LINK switch and TP-LINK wifi AP (both very cheap chinese models but they do the job nicely) - so I'm not sure if I could now get them to buy extra kit. but if anybody has experience with tomato QoS and stability (over 10 users at a time) I'd like to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davil Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 ah, my email settings are sorted now - "My Controls" hmmmm I thought I had done that already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yauch Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I've heard IPCop works pretty good and it's point click next next next to install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davil Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 I've heard IPCop works pretty good and it's point click next next next to install. Looks nice alright. I might give that a go. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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