[WBEL-devel] Re: [WBEL-users] Security updates

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, John Morris wrote:

> The problem was too many people trying to download direct.  Which is why I
> have killed http access to the whole /pub tree as of this afternoon.

You don't need these drastic measures. And you don't need manual 
intervention at all. I'm amazed that with all those people coming to 
this list and saying "I converted X tens of servers to WBEL" nobody 
heard at least of "traffic shaping" in Linux.

This works when you have to prioritize outbound traffic - this is 
exactly the problem here. (The inbound traffic can't be directly 
prioritized as it depends on the other side and routers in-between.)
So, point your browser at:

http://lartc.org/

and start reading. Having set up 3 different purpose shapers, I can
say that working with 'tc' (and sometimes with 'iptables' to mark
packets) is not exactly the most user-friendly experience, but the 
result is well worth it.

As to what policy to impose... the server and link owners are the only
ones that can decide. But you have almost infinite possibilities :-)

-- 
Bogdan Costescu

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