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>2.3. What Linux can do for you</H1
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>A small list of things that are possible:</P
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>Throttle bandwidth for certain computers
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>Throttle bandwidth TO certain computers
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>Help you to fairly share your bandwidth
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>Protect your network from DoS attacks
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>Multiplex several servers as one, for load balancing or
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>Restrict access to your computers
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>Limit access of your users to other hosts
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>Do routing based on user id (yes!), MAC address, source IP
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address, port, type of service, time of day or content
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>Currently, not many people are using these advanced features. This is for
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several reasons. While the provided documentation is verbose, it is not very
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hands-on. Traffic control is almost undocumented.</P
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