Re: Limiting bandwidth used

[Guillaume <silencer@free-4ever.net>]

Kjell Rune Skaaraas wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm sharing an ADSL connection with my landlord, and
> need my Debian box (running etch) to cap the bandwidth
> use (just its own use, it's not acting as a router).
>
> Is there any way to do this that doesn't involve
> setting up a massively complex traffic shaper, tons of
> iptables rules etc etc.? I'm used to doing this with
> netlimiter on Windows and the only solutions for linux
> when I've searched for it I go "What the f...?" over.
> All I want is to be able to say "Use max 1500kb/s down
> and 150kb/s up on anything outside 10.0.0.*". I really
> don't see how that can be so difficult.
>
> Regards,
> Kjell Rune Skaaraas

Hi

It can be done with iproute... iproute packages is in the main archive 
of Debian
The command is "tc"

But I'm not sure it's more easy than iptables !!!

Maybe, you can have a look at WonderShaper: http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

It's not the main goal of this script, but you can use it for what you 
want by change the "speed" values to your values on the start of the script.

Regards
Guillaume



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