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