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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
Subject: Re: traffic shape per ip
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:34:26 +0100
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On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 21:43 +0300, binary wrote:
> i would to limit the bandwidth of some users based on IPs:

[...]

This is not as simple as you might think. In order to shape per-IP,
you'll need to set up a class for each individual IP address, and then
filter to that class. I am not aware of a way to write one rule to say
"limit each IP address to this amount".

Presumably the reason to filter per-IP is to stop single users hogging
the bandwidth. If so, a better approach might be to classify the type of
traffic and then shape on that, or alternatively share bandwidth evenly
per-IP rather than per-connection (as is the default). There is some
information on how to do this on this page at the end of the "downlink"
section:

http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Fair_traffic_shaping_an_ADSL_line_for_a_local_network_using_Linux

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Andy