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

[Kobe L. <ko...@le...>]

As was said before here

Anything you can mark, you can shape ;-)

Greetz
Kobe

> 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
>