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>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.</P
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>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.</P
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>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.</P
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>This document is copyright 2001 by Tomasz Chmielewski, and is
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>If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel free
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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.</P
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>I would like to thank Ami M. Echeverri lula@pollywog.com who helped me to
convert the HOWTO into SGML format and corrected some mistakes. I also want to
thank Ryszard Prosowicz prosowicz@poczta.fm for useful suggestions.</P
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