Traffic Shaping / Bandwidth Throttling
by Thomas Paine
I've been using gShield for years as the firewall on my border device.
I am looking at traffic shaping and bandwidth limiting on my network
to improve my voip and to throttle down my buddies torrents.
I don't mind certain times of the day or night having the speed ramped
up, but prime time 4pm to midnight I'd like to control the speeds on
things.
I'm looking for something that will let me set this up. I'd like to be
able to only slow down one or two IP's, and have the IP's of a couple
of the other PC's on my lan be unaffected.
I've been looking on google, but I don't see much of a solution that
fits my needs. I have my border device doing dhcp, so I can control
which pc's get which IP.
Does anyone have a good suggestion that will handle this?
Thanks.
--
-=/>Thom
13 years, 11 months
Network Speed issues on Fedora 12
by Alan
I have a couple of systems with gigabit ethernet cards. If I copy a large
quantity of data to the machine I notice the data throughput start to fall
off after about 4-5 gigs. It keeps getting slower and slower the more data
that flows through the interface.
This happens on x86_64 and i386. A similar Ubuntu system does not show the
problem.
If I run the Fedora 12 system under VMWare, I still see the problem.
Windows Server 2008 runs fine on the same VMWare server.
Any ideas here? This has been driving me mad and I have seen nothing
useful on this issue in my various Google searches.
Thanks!
--
Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.
13 years, 11 months
Hi + i945 external monitor problem
by Fabio Alessandro Locati
Hello fedora user list :)
I'm glad to have joined this community occasionally in the past year
(since F11 has been released). I really think this is a healthy
community :). Now, with F13, I decided to make the big step from
Kubuntu to Fedora-KDE.
So, today I realized that I have subscribed a couple of fedora
mailing-list about a year ago... but not this one... so... here I am
:).
So far I have only spotted one problem that I haven't been able to fix, yet.
My laptop (a DELL Inspiron 540) has a video card i945 embedded in it.
When I try with my sister's external monitor (that Kubuntu 10.04 was
able to use up to 1280x1024) I can only use it at a maximum of
1024x768. I guess it is a driver problem, but I have no clue about how
to fix it. Is there anyone who has solved this problem and/or knows
how to do that?
Thank you,
Fabio
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Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia
13 years, 11 months
gtk stock icons missing
by James Bridge
I don't know if this is a fedora problem or a gtk one...
I have been writing some short gtk programs, as a learning exercise. So
far as I can see, I should be able to add items from stock, but the
images are missing and all I get are the default items as mnemonics. I
have attached a short example. It compiles with:
gcc stock.c `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 --libs gtk+-2.0`
It seems that gtk can't find the directory with the images. The files
needed seem to be in /usr/share/icons/gnome and show up in the gtk-demo
program. However, Glade buttons selected from stock do not have the
icons either.
Any suggestions most welcome!
--
N James Bridge <james(a)xmas.demon.co.uk>
13 years, 11 months
question about NSFv4 and FC13
by Gerhard Magnus
I'm currently running FC11 and plan to do a clean install of FC13
throughout my small home LAN. But before I do this I'd like to get a few
things straight about NSFv4 and FC13.
I've been using a setup for NSF suggested by someone on this list for
several versions of Fedora. Here's the procedure:
I use system-config-nfs on the server to create entries in
the /etc/exports file for each directory I want to share, e.g.:
/home/magnusg/Music 192.168.1.12(rw,sync) 192.168.1.13(rw,sync)
Also on the server, I use system-config-services to enable and start nfs
and nfslock on levels 3, 4 and 5.
In /etc/sysconfig/nfs on the server I force several ports to be
non-random by specifying them as follows:
RQUOTAD_PORT=4000
LOCKD_TCPPORT=4001
LOCKD_UDPPORT=4001
MOUNTD_PORT=4002
STATD_PORT=4003
Then, using system-config-firewall on the server, I make NSF4 a trusted
service. On the "Other Ports" panel I open ports 4000-4003 as well as
port 111 (for the portmapper) as tcp and udp
Finally, on each client, I add a line like this to the fstab file:
192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/Music /home/magnusg/Music nfs
rw,auto,hard,intr,bg 0 0
My question is: does any of this procedure change for the NSFv4 on FC13?
Or is there now a less complicated way to accomplish the same thing?
Thanks for the help!
13 years, 11 months
pdf paper format
by Bill Davidsen
I recently got some documents from a college, and need to print them to
submit. They came in pdf format, and will not print. The issue seems to
be that the documents are save for use on A4 paper, not letter. Is there
some utility which allows changing of the paper format easily?
I can do the pdf=>postscript and postscript=>graphic_image conversions
and print scaled, but if there's a tool which saves the time and effort
I'd rather use it. Any ideas?
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com>
"We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
used in creating them." - Einstein
13 years, 11 months
No terminal bell in compiz
by Sam Varshavchik
In gnome-terminal, echo -e '\007' plays the alert sound that's set in
Preferences → Sound.
When I start Compiz, the alert sound is no longer played. The "Audible Bell"
setting in Compiz config settings is definitely enabled, but the alert sound
does not get played.
If I stop Compiz, the terminal bell starts working again.
13 years, 11 months
Desktop doesn't wake up from suspend
by Alex
Hi,
I'm using FC13 x86_64 with all updates on an MSI MS-7025 motherboard
with a "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+". I've configured power
management in the BIOS to put the system to sleep in ten minutes, and
left it disabled in fedora. It goes to sleep but doesn't wake up.
Pressing the power button after it goes to sleep causes it to power
up, but fedora never starts and it's necessary to hit the reset
button.
Am I configuring something wrong, or is this a bug? I've also tried to
configure fedora itself, in conjunction with power management in the
BIOS, but it makes no difference.
Here is the output from lspci:
http://pastebin.com/49YwS8VL
Here is the output from dmidecode:
http://pastebin.com/LB9zVLUN
Here is the output from dmesg:
http://pastebin.com/JGisLb3r
Here is the output from lsmod:
http://pastebin.com/vkrXWp7P
Is there any other information I can provide to troubleshoot this further?
Also, the system doesn't currently detect the monitor, although I'm
pretty sure it did at one point. I'm not sure what's changed, but it's
a NEC Accusync 70, 17" CRT.
Thanks,
Alex
13 years, 11 months
F13 Sadly Unusable
by Brian C. Huffman
I upgraded to F13 on my Dell Latitude D630
* Wireless doesn't work - the laptop only gets a multicast address, not
a valid unicast address
* Bluetooth DUN still doesn't work.
* So I go to my docking station so that I can get *some* network, and X
comes up with the *closed* laptop lid as the primary monitor in a dual
monitor setup...so I can't see any windows
Wow. Impressive.
-b
13 years, 11 months
Re: Improving the list climate [was Re: Fwd: Fedora Weekly News 228]
by david briley
On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:17:04 -0400, Máirín wrote:
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 21:01 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
2010/6/3 Máirín Duffy:
Do we want new users to witness this kind of behavior? They are directed
towards this list right now via a number of different pointers. My team
is planning to redesign the Fedora website for Fedora 14, and I'm not
sure we can in good conscience continue to point new users to this list
--
You know, as one of these "new users to the list" whom everyone continues to try to capitalize on in this debate, I have to say that I am indeed turned off by the immaturity, or the bloody inability of you all to cope with each other. I'm tire of having my inbox spammed by these what amount to little more than well-worded flame-wars. I haven't paid close enough attention to place blame, and I will not; but what I have seen seems to be little more than that.
My thoughts on this whole thing are that this conversation should be moved to a list about development, or create a new list for community-balance discussions or something. Because honestly, all of this, the previous FWN discussion, and the one that preceded that, have been irrelevant to the purpose of a beginners list, so far as I am aware.
David
13 years, 11 months
