[LARTC] The Wonder Shaper problem

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:26:53PM +0200, Rudi Hansen wrote:
> > Your message does not entirely make sense. Here you are talking about
> > inbound.
> 
> Ok let's se if I can explain it properly.
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> I have a small home network with an ADSL router fore my internet connection,
> and some computers all connected to the ADSL Router through a switch.
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> Now my problem is that I would like to be able to restrict the internet
> bandwidth on some of my machines.
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> Now I have used The Wonder Shaper script to restrict the bandwidth on my
> Linux machine, and it works on that machine.
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> But now my problem is if I setup one of my Windows machines to use the Linux
> machine as gateway, but I can still access the internet with full bandwidth
> from that machine.

Ah, I get it. You need to disable icmp redirects, your linux box is sending
the windows machine directly to the adsl router! 

Check out /proc/sys/net something or order.

Good luck!

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> Now what am I doing wrong?

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