several though-enough net questions
 

hi folks!
i have several questions, i'll list them in the order of importance for me.

1. i've been building a rather big & complex LAN lately. and now things only got worse. what i need to do is to give each and every machine hooked up to the switch a certain upload bandwidth. i think i imagine how to do traffic shaping per network interface, but how to do it for each of the machines in a switched subnet? so help needed with that, thanks.

2. how to make dhcp to give certain MAC a certain IP? this is of course no problem, but i would appreciate if someone posted an example of such a configuration of dhcpd.conf

3. i really have ran into trouble with partimage. i think i have configured the user access correctly using the partimagedusers file as described on the site. but ho matter how hard i try, i get "authentification failed". partimaged doesn't say that it couldn't open the users list file or that the user is not recognized, it says "wrong password", so... i have no glue(i have md5 of course and partimage is said to support it). any ideas?


thank you for your attention :)

umm? anybody?

Eh well that's some heavy stuff for question #1 and I don't know anything about #3 but I can at least give you a sample solution for #2:

(from /etc/dhcpd.conf)
host pyrrhus {
hardware ethernet 00:10:5a:07:00:84;
fixed-address 192.168.1.4;
}

And, you guessed it, just put the appropriate MAC address and fixed-address and you're cooking with bacon fat.

Sorry I couldn't help at all with the other questions. I'd be interested to see what you can do with #1 for sure ...

thakks for the dhcpd stuff.
let's just stand by :)

hi again.

i've done some digging, and got some answers. about Question #1.

as i've understood, i need to use htb. for htb i need iproute2.
the problem is, how to install iproute2 into my redhat 9 system? it conflicts with iproute, and it seems that i should rip down a half of the system to solve the rpm dependencyes.

of course, if anyone has some different idea, another distro, another way of shaping traffic etc., i would like to hear about it.

please somebody? there must be a way :Pengy: