check out http://www.partydome.us/index.php?slackware for my slackware
10.1 config. included is a basic firewall (refuses all incomming
connections by default, you will have to add rulesets to allow
particular connections into services) and a traffic shaping rig built
using iptables/tc.

buck wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2005 07:01:00 -0800, macusr023@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>
>>Put together a Slack PC with several NICs to use as a router/switch.
>>Need both a firewall and bandwidth capper (have both separately). Has
>>anyone heard of a combo package? Searched sourceforge and google but
>>only came up with high end commercial products.
>>
>>If not, I'll go ahead with both ... Thanks in advance
>
>
> Don't know of any package, but if you could configure a box with
> "several" NICs you should be able to roll your own:
>
> FIREWALL: iptables script using any one of a number of the ones
> available. I like the one at
> http://www.malibyte.net/iptables/scripts/fwscripts.html as a starting
> point.
>
> BANDWIDTH CAPPER: If you really just want to rate limit, iptables can
> do that too. Otherwise, roll your own HTB or HFSC shaping script.
>
> The tough part of shaping is that in order to be able to shape
> everything, you must have one machine that sees all internet
> connections so it can arbitrate who gets how much. I built a special
> box with 3 NICs - one internal and two internet-facing. The internal
> NIC shapes inbound and the external NICs shape outbound traffic.
> http://www.lartc.org/
> http://yesican.chsoft.biz/lartc/index.html
> --
> buck
>