Traffic Shaping/QoS Ideas or Assistance.

[Keith Snape]

I'm an absolute traffic-shaping/Qos addict, but I've never really been
a "roll-it-yourself" kind of guy.  Even the basic cbq.init or htb.init
solutions seem too lacking for the more esoteric and "abusive"
solutions (P2P / Bittorrent shaping/control).

I've tried absolutely every script and solution I can find on google,
I've asked everyone and everywhere I can think of, and I still haven't
seem to have found the holy grail of traffic shaping.  I've tried
everything from Wondershaper (cbq/htb) through Smoothwall with a very
specific htb.init based control system... nothing does it as well as I
would have liked.

A long time ago I discovered this site; 
http://digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/
And was very intrigued - but alas my linux knowhow falls short when it
comes to kernel patching/compiling to any specific needs.  I haven't a
clue where to start, and even trying the hand-fed instructions I
either end up breaking something or it just doesn't work.

So is anyone out there in Ubuntu Land (tm) (a) interested in working
with me to see what can be done to implement this (what appears to be
fullest featured QoS/shaping solution I've ever seen), or (b) have a
wonderful, fantastic, all-encompassing (p2p control capable) solution
that they'd like to share?

I refuse to rest (and move on to a new project) until I have a
QoS/Traffic Shaping solution that both controls traffic from the
clients on my lan, as well as traffic from the NAT/Firewall/QoS
control point (Ubuntu box in this case) itself - and yes, that means
in some circumstances there may be P2P applications like bittorrent
running from my NAT/Firewall box (shoosh, I know that reasons against
it - no need to reiterate) and that in and of itself appears to be the
hardest thing to control (huge latency hits).

So....? :P