[LARTC] traffic shaping question

[Marco Berizzi]

Nagy Gabor Peter wrote:

> So I thought that I will create a virtual interface, and route all
> traffic from the Internet through this one. So incoming on Internet
> interface, outgoing on virtual interface, and from there incoming on
the
> firewall machine, or outgoing on the LAN or the DMZ interface.
>
> Does it sound good? How can I do that? (I suppose I have to read other
> chapters in the lartc guide. Could you point me out where to start?
What
> to look for?)

Yes. The virtual interface is called IFB. Look at
the iproute2 package source under doc/actions