I''m in the process of replacing a Novell server that had a single NIC and routed traffic from our local network to either the Internet or to the Corporate office. I have this configuration working now but we''ve run in to some bandwidth problems. The server that I have set up now is Linux. It uses a different IP for Samba than for the DNS/DHCP and routing (different VMs in VMware Server). What I''d like to do is configure the traffic control to do several things: 1) It needs to be able to control traffic leaving our local network and going to either Corporate (via point-to-point T-1) or the Internet (via fractional T-1). 2) It needs to be able to control traffic coming IN TO our network from remote VPN connections. 3) Telnet and SSH traffic should be real time. 4) All other local traffic (that is, traffic not leaving our local network) needs to be real time AND at local network speeds. It there a good way to achieve these goals given that the router only has one NIC in it? Or might there be a better way of doing this? Thanks, in advance, for your help. ~ Tom
Hi there,> > It there a good way to achieve these goals given that the router > only has one NIC in it?Connect the NIC to managed L2 switch. Configure connection as a trunk carrying some vlans. Configure remaining L2 switch ports as untagged and assign them do appropriate vlans. Functionally you''ll have Linux router with more NICs (groups of untagged switch ports will be equivalent to one linux NIC). On linux system you''ll have separate interfaces like eth0.1 eth0.2 and so on. This can significantly ease task of shaping and routing your traffic the way you want it. Another option is using IFB/IMQ for shaping traffic, but such setup won''t be too straightforward and bug-prune. pozdrawiam -- Marek Kierdelewicz Kierownik Działu Systemów Sieciowych, KoBa Network Department Manager, KoBa tel. (85) 7406466; fax. (85) 7406467 e-mail: admin@koba.pl