[LARTC] Distro ready out of the box

[nic-lartc at studentergaarden.dk]

Debian 4.0 has all I need including iptables and tc, but _not_ L7 filter 
or ipp2p :-(

You should look into Zeroshell, which has L7 (haven't tried it)
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9446520379.html
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng

Shorewall appears to have ipp2p (but apparently not L7?)

and it looks like there are add ons to IPCop.

It is sad it is not easier... I looked into L7 etc. and ended up 
deciding that is is such an imperfect way of classifying data that it is 
better (for me at least) to instead choose a different policy - 
prioritize ssh, VOIP and web by port and then prevent each host from 
hogging more than their fair share of the total bandwidth.

But e.g. DD-WRT (embedded distro for wireless routers like the WRT54GL) 
seems to do a quite good job of it (with L7).

sincerely,
Nicolas


Riccardo (SCASI) wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I'm writing not for technical problems but for a simple question.
> Do You know if there is a distro which is ready for traffic shaping 
> etc. 'out of the box'?
> I mean a distro which does not require patching the kernel and/or 
> iptables and/or installing from source etc. and gives the user most of 
> the tools needed (imq, ipp2p, l7filter and so on).
>
> many thanks
> riki