Re: Limiting bandwidth used

[Peter Colton <debian.user@bissybox.com>]

	hello Kjell,

	have a look at the link below, it may be able to give you a starting point 
for packet shaping for your situation.

http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/computers/traffic_shaping.html
 
	regards

                peter colton

On Friday 30 June 2006 13:49, 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