Re: [bwm-tools-tech] BWN on a bridge

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Hi Shannon,

>
> Could i run this on a linux server that is bridged?

Yep.

> i want to drop a box on the inside of our firewall between the network
> and the firewall to monitor/shape/report on all our internal subnets.
>
> Like would I be able to shape 192.168.50 addresses to 7M/s and
> 192.168.1 addresses to 10M/s and use the rest to allocate to our web
> server to use. Then be able to get monthly reports on how much each
> has used? All this on a transparent bridge?

For the briding, just setup a normal Linux Bridge, make sure you have
the bridge-nf patches applied (or use a kernel which includes them) so
netfilter see's the bridged packets. Check out
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bridge for more info.

Configure BWM Tools as usual .. voila.


Regards
Nigel