The purpose of this guide is to provide an easy solution for limiting incoming
traffic, thus preventing our LAN
users from consuming all the bandwidth of our internet link.
This is useful when our internet link is slow or our LAN users
download tons of mp3s and the newest Linux distro's *.iso files.
You can always view the latest version of this document on the World
Wide Web at the
URL http://www.linuxdoc.org.
New versions of this document will also be uploaded to various Linux
WWW and FTP sites, including the LDP home page at
http://www.linuxdoc.org.
Neither the author nor the distributors, or any other contributor of
this HOWTO are in any way responsible for physical, financial, moral or any
other type of damage incurred by following the suggestions in this text.
This document is copyright 2001 by Tomasz Chmielewski, and is
released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
which is hereby incorporated by reference.
If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel free
to mail Tomasz Chmielewski at tch at metalab.unc.edu. I welcome any suggestions
or criticisms. If you find a mistake or a typo in this document (and you will
find a lot of them, as English is not my native language), please let me know
so I can correct it in the next version. Thanks.
I would like to thank Ami M. Echeverri lula at pollywog.com who helped me to
convert the HOWTO into SGML format and corrected some mistakes. I also want to
thank Ryszard Prosowicz prosowicz at poczta.fm for useful suggestions.
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