On 9/10/10, Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote: > > Note that you will only be able to control the flow of outgoing traffic to > your system if you place the bandwidth control on the server endpoint. > Incoming traffic needs an in-line box to so that you can access the other > interface and control it's outgoing traffic (your servers incoming > traffic). I understand that problem from the reading done so far. Fortunately in this particular situation, all I really need is the outgoing traffic shaping since the ISP would be limiting what's incoming anyway. The client just want to make sure certain key interactive services doesn't get drowned out when somebody is pulling a huge document from the server.