.TH shaperd 8 .SH NAME shaperd \- traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks .SH SYNOPSIS .B shaperd [-h] [-v] [-c .I file .B ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through a linux box. As it runs as a normal daemon process, packet forwarding to/from the kernel can be done by the BSD divert sockets layer (available as a patch for the linux kernel) or by the ipq packet forwarding library that comes with kernel 2.4. .PP The configuration is made via a single text file, you can force a reload by sending a SIGHUP. Logs are routed via syslog, with priority=info, facility=daemon. .PP Please note that, for the moment, you must instruct the kernel which packets to forward to .B shaperd\. This can be done, for example, with the .BR ipchains (8) utility under Linux 2.2, or with .BR iptables (8) under Linux 2.4. Also, note that if a packet does not match any of the rules in the configuration file, it will be ignored by shaperd (but it will be logged if the log level is high enough). .SH OPTIONS .IP "-c config-file" Tells the daemon to get its configuration from this .I config-file .IP -h Summarizes command line options .IP -v Prints version information .SH SEE ALSO .BR ipchains (8); .BR iptables (8); .BR libipq (3); Linux's divert sockets site, http://www.anr.mcnc.org/~divert/index.shtml ; Netfilter's site, http://netfilter.samba.org. Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control, http://ds9a.nl/lartc. .SH BUGS .nf do i kill them? become their friend? do i eat them? raw or well done do i trick them? i ... i don't think they're that dumb do i join them? looks like that's the one i got bugs on my skin tickle my nausea i let it happen again they're always taking over i see they surround me i see ... see them deciding my fate oh that which was once was once up to me ... now it's too late i got bugs in my room one on one that's when i had a chance i'll just stop now i'll become naked, and with them i'll become one .ni .SH AUTHOR .PP Leandro Santi