superyupkent Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Hello everyone, I would like to dedicate an old Intel P150Mhz to be my Firewall/router in my home network. I would like to control the maximum bandwith I provide to the various users in my network. I would also like to be able to control and maintain the total amount of bandwith consumed (per month). I have been looking at Mandrake's Multi Network Firewall Is this a good choice? or should I just install Mandrake and strip it just for use as a firewall and add some programs for bandwith management? Thanx Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 based on the speed of the box you are trying to run, I would use the MNF. you can run it headless, and not have to worry about X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superyupkent Posted July 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 hey ezroller, Thanks for the quick reply, do you know if there is also the posibility of bandwith control under MNF? Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 I can't seem to find any mention of bandwidth control ( I assume you mean a quota of sorts) all I see are references to time management ( at what time a user can browse the net. ) These pages may help your research if you haven't seen it already. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mnf/features http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/...r/products/2403 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Im not sure, but I thought I have collected sone info from mandrakeusers abotu how this can be done..the problem is that it's on my home-computer...:) in Belgium ( if I have it). I believe it are some config-files......I tried searching for "bandwith" on this forum, but don't think it's usefull, maybe you have better luck :D......If I'm back in Belgium ( but that is over 3 weeks), I hope I remember it and take a look..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 what you are wanting is "traffic shaping" and as far as I know MNF will not do traffic shaping. The only free product I have seen that does traffic shaping is mikrotikOS http://www.mikrotik.com .. although its not nearly as nice as MNF to manage. certainly if you come across some info on traffic shaping for MNF I would be interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 You can do trafficshaping with shorewall...if you want this, just start reading about the TOS-file if I'm correct...also about some other files.... But you can also limit bandwith if that is what you mean....My info at home normally contains info about this last thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sean_dunlop Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Shaping is apparently an option of the next MNF release - approx 2 months away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X9X0 Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Would the new version number be 9.2 MNF? Is it out yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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