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  From: Paul Schulz <pschulz@foursticks.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:55:37 +1030

Re: PROGRAMMERS! have an idea for you

Trick for new users... remember to turn on the packet forwarding
in the kernel as it's off by default.

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

  > Even better is the QoS tools available in 2.2 and 2.4
  > kernels. You'll need the iproute2 tools to do this. Information is a
  > bit hard to find and the utilities are pretty cryptic, but check out
  > these links:

I hadn't seen this one.. looks like a good summary..

  > http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/Packet-Shaping-HOWTO.html

  > http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/

This ones good.. it's where I found the packet forwarding switch :-)
To go straight there though...

  > http://www.ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/HOWTO/cvs/2.4routing/output/2.4routing.html

If you're interested in the kernel internals, take a look at

Linux - Advanced Networking Overview - Version 1
http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/howto/howto.html

Paul

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