Hello, I''m starting to toy with CBQ.init and was wondering if someone would take the time to answer a few of my questions. First my setup: LAN | [FW/router]----ISDN to NET | DMZ I''m experimenting with shaping the trafic between the NET and the LAN. I''ve got two classes defined as follows: cbq-10.net-lan--------------- DEVICE=eth0,10Mbit,1Mbit RATE=81Kbit WEIGHT=8Kbit PRIO=5 BOUNDED=yes RULE=172.17.1.0/24 and cbq-20.net-lan--------------- DEVICE=aps0,128Kbit,12Kbit RATE=81Kbit WEIGHT=8Kbit PRIO=5 BOUNDED=yes RULE=172.17.1.0/24, The shaping seems to be working as advertized, but I''m not entirely satisfied with the behavior. And it''s not clear to me what to do to get what I want. (which is the reason for the post) Let me explain. With the above in place, traffic from the internet to the 172.x.x.x network is limited to somewhere around 10Kbytes/s. But say I start downloading a big file off the net from a client on the lan. This fills up the available bandwidth, and everything else comes to a grinding halt (very very slow), including any shell connections to the Firewall/router. What I''d like is for all clients on the lan to share (nicely) a given amount of bandwidth, devided equally among all using it. Also, I''d rather not penalize connections directly to/from the Firewall/router, although I suspect that fixing this is simply a matter of putting some better rules in place. Comments/suggestions are very much appreciated. -Andrew -- Computer Systems Admin. Bibleinfo.com PO Box 19039 Spokane, WA 99219