Re: [TCLUG:12053] traffic shaper

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dave Sherman wrote:

> I can attach shaper0 to either eth0 or eth1, but not both at the same time. I
> checked /var/log/messages, and found an error stating that device shaper1 did
> not exist (this was when I tried attaching shaper1 to eth1, after attaching
> shaper0 to eth0). When I try to attach shaper0 to eth1 while it is already
> attached to eth0, I get the message 
> 
> 	shaper: Device or resource busy
> 
> So I guess it only wants to attach to one device at a time. Actually, though,
> since I really only care about capping the download bandwidth, attaching to eth0
> should be all I need. This box is a firewall to my lan, with eth1 connected to a
> T1, and eth0 to our internal hub. So if the output from eth0 is capped, that
> should effectively cap my users' download bandwidth. I hope. Sound good to you?
> 

Sounds like a plan to me. You could probably load a second shaper module,
though..

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