Requirements

From MasterShaper

This is only a quick overview over MasterShaper's requirements. Check out the Documentation for detail informations.

Generic

• Linux Kernel v2.4 or v2.6
• Kernel support for QoS and/or fair queuing
• Kernel support for Netfilter (iptables)
• New versions of iptables (ex 1.2.11) and iproute2 (ex 20041019-3)
• Perl
• sudo (so webserver - mostly not running as root - can load the shaper rules which needs root privileges)

Web Interface

• Apache or Apache2 (httpd.apache.org)
• PHP with libgd, jpeg and MySQL support
• several PHP PEAR modules
• MySQL
• phplayersmenu
• jpgraph

IMQ - Intermediate Queueing Device

If you want to shape on a single interface:

• Patched kernel