Ok guys, i am very sorry if this has been posted many times (i looked in the tutorial section for help with this)
Firstly when it comes to linux, im a
i know a fair bit about networking and stuff, but nothing at the level of what im about to ask, so please bear with me if im being dumb
Also i couldnt find the search button at the top to search for stuff allready posted on the forum
Ok heres my situation
Currently i have a network with 5 computers (for eg) all these run on DHCP and there is a router connected to the internet
Currently the router is, well pretty crap, for eg, while using bittorent, even if the download speed is only 500 kb/s (10 kb/s up) it locks up the router, and no-one in the house can use the internet (its a 1mb connection, 256kb/s up)
Ok, so i would like to set up a computer as a linux router, so what would happen is that would sit between the router and the rest of the network (unfortunetly i dont have a BB modem at the moment, but if this works i can get one)
Ok so now we have router - > linux computer - > network
I need the linux computer to be a DHCP server (sure thats easy

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and it needs some kind of firewall to keep the network safe
Here comes the tricky part though
i would like to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth for 1 computer, so that all the other computers can use the pool of bandwidth thats left, but this 1 computer allways has a dedicated 10 kb/s (for eg) connection to the internet, which the others cannot use up
ok, i think that bits easy enough (if you know how to do it)
Now the tricky bit - i want that pool to be reserved only when the computer is on, when its turned off i would like that reserved bandwidth to go back to being availible to the rest of the network
Also i would like the linux computer to accept VPN connections (but that can be another time when it works)
If there are any guides that cover this, that would be great, i havent been able to find any (that arent either outdated to the max, or are so compicated its like reading french)
(oh and if theres a good one explaining how you install linux properly, that would be cool)
Thanks for any help
Yahooadam
p.s. Im downloading fedora core 4 to do this, and i have a knoppix live CD
pp.s. im a newb with linux, and will play around with knoppix a bit to get to know it
