LARTC - Jun 2004 - making a traffic shaper for wireless users

Hello all,

Im new using tc, ive been reading the howto at least 2 or 3 times, but
there''s a
lot information to aquire all of it quickly.

I''ve installed a linux box as firewall for a wireless Network in a
hotel, this
box is a radius for the access points and it uses iptables to redirect and
permit/deny the customers to use the net. So it uses iptables to count the bytes
to restrict the user using the bytes transferred.

Now i have to create a different bandwith restrictions, i''ve testing
using
iptables to mark the users and then restrict the bandwith, but it was in a lab
scenario, my question is


if i create suppose a classifier for 64kbps, 128kbps, 256kbps and so on. do i
have to create different classifiers for each customer? or just sending 2 or
more customers to the 128kbps lane, both of them will have 128kbps to use and
not 128/users?


to restrict incoming and outgoing, i need to set a classifier in both
interfaces? for incoming traffic the classifier goes to the LAN interface and
for outgoing traffic in the WAN? of course switching the source/destination
information at the iptables rules used to mark.


Thank you.




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Hi Alexis,
> I''ve installed a linux box as firewall for a wireless Network in a
hotel, this
> box is a radius for the access points and it uses iptables to redirect and
> permit/deny the customers to use the net. So it uses iptables to count the
bytes
> to restrict the user using the bytes transferred.
Take a look at:
http://frottle.sourceforge.net/
Unless you have access to all the wireless nodes, you won''t be able to
fully
implement it, but you may be able to steal some of the idea/rate algorithms.

Regards,

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