Another basic networking question.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 13:04:37 +1100,
  Simon Slater <pyevet at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of the many ways to do thing in
> Linux.  Fedora has been the platform I've used since FC1, but only now
> am I getting adventurous and improving how things are setup here.

You might want to look at the LARTC Howto and some of the Howto's linked
to on the netfilter page. The LARTC is a bit dated, but is still a good
starting point for traffic management.

The man pages for the following commands will help you play with them:
iptables
ip
tc