Policy-Based Routing Using Software Firewalls?

Bios_Hakr asks: "My local computer group meets for monthly LAN parties. The location that hosts the parties also has a small internet cafe. After the cafe closes, they allow us to connect to their T-1 line. They supply us with a single IP address which we NAT/(PAT?) via a Linksys DSL router. We also have a second T-1 supplied by one of the more gracious members of our group. He agreed to supply this T-1 after experiencing abysmal ping rates with 30 people sharing the bandwidth. Herein lies the quandry: How can we implement Policy-Based routing for our LAN? I'd like all HTTP and FTP to be directed out one line while popular gaming ports are directed over the second line. All file-sharing traffic should be killed. I know how to do this via Cisco IOS and policy-route-mapping, but I'm at a loss when it comes to doing it via software firewall solutions. We have several Linux-familiar people in the group and lots of Windows geeks; but the solution should be simple and require zero brainpower to set up after the initial implementation. How would you split your LAN traffic across two T-1 lines?"

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Re:Simple perl script will do it

[citog]

Bugger! I have mod points but 'wanker' isn't an option...