From: Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Traffic shaping for upload & download
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:56:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-103614140018268@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-103612899211878@msgid-missing>
On Friday 01 November 2002 06:35, Joseph Watson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about two way traffic, and how to shape it?
>
> Lets say we want to limit a customer usage to 256kbit total. So on my
> firewall I add shaping rules to the client side nice with a ceiling of
> 256kbit. Now I also want to limit there upload, so I add the same to the
> other nice in the firewall. But if the customer uploads and downloads at
> the same time, they could use up 512kbit of my connection. How can one
> handle this problem. Is there a way to specify a max for all traphic and
> then alow barrowing between upload and download?? Or it this a limitation
> that I will have to live with?
You can use the imq device. This is a virtual device. You can redirect
packets with iptables to it and you can do it on incoming/outgoing and from
different NIC's. So you can limit download + upload together like you want.
Stef
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2002-11-01 5:35 [LARTC] Traffic shaping for upload & download Joseph Watson
2002-11-01 8:56 ` Stef Coene [this message]
2002-11-01 16:15 ` Don Cohen
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