Specify Connection based on port?

[TheYak]

Hi guys.

This might be a really silly question, but I was wondering whether the following is possible:

We have four people in our house that use the Net. Three of them play World of Warcraft and the other just surfs the net. So, I was wondering whether it would be possible to have two concurrent connections, one unshaped and one shaped, and to somehow tell the router (or a machine with IPCop or Smoothwall or something alike) to use the unshaped line for WoW and the shaped for normal HTTP/Other requests.

I'm not even sure whether you can have two concurrent connections running on the same line, so that might be my first mistake. The reason why I want to do this, is because I just need the unshaped bandwidth for WoW, to get better latency. So I could get an unshaped account for WoW and use the shaped account for everything else without affecting the unshaped account.

I'd really appreciate any feedback and help,

Thanks,
Johann.

 

[Luke7777]

That would be similiar to my request here ?

 

[Obelix]

yep - i do it. Axxess account and Cybersmart account.

Linux machine with VMware server ( free ) with the following virtual machines
1 Linux Policy based router
2 Linux based firewalls each with their own pppoe connection to the modem ( configured for bridged mode )

The router policy routes ( changes default gateway ) for machines based on their ip, sending them to either one of the 2 firewalls

The physical hardware is a mini-itx baord with 2 network cards

 

[Surv0]

If you dont want to go the linux route... just enable bridging on your modem, then all you need to do is create a broadband dialup connection through the windows internet connection wizzard, option 1, then option 2 then option 2 again. Put in ur account details and click dial.. that should connect you. Do that on every other pc and you can use which ever account you please...

 

[MFour]

If you dont want to go the linux route... just enable bridging on your modem, then all you need to do is create a broadband dialup connection through the windows internet connection wizzard, option 1, then option 2 then option 2 again. Put in ur account details and click dial.. that should connect you. Do that on every other pc and you can use which ever account you please...

Yup that does the trick, I have 3 different ISP accounts dialing in on 1 line of 2 computers. I also use Route Sentry to split my international and local traffic between my shaped and unshaped accounts. This works quite well as all my local surfing, TeamSpeak bandwidth run through the shaped account and my gaming (which is on a Greek server) run through the unshaped account. Save save save...

 

[Surv0]

yup it is the best option!, obviously for the ppl that dont know, RASPPPOE is required to make more than 1 connection on a single pc...