Re: bandwidth limiting on virtual hosts

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

so i found out :(

there is actually a fairly decent howto on the subject at

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO.html#AEN60

i think it tries to cover a little too much, but i think there is a good 
deal of info worth getting out of the article.

i guess it depends on where you are concerned about your bottleneck may 
occur, but i found it was easier to limit via the router rather than the 
os. i'd still be very interested in learning more about how this works :)

charles

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Danny Sauer wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:16:34AM -0500, Charles Menzes wrote:
> > i just read through the article in this month's sysadmin about bandwidth 
> > limiting using a couple of commercial products as well as iptables. does 
> > anyone have a good resource for iptables example configs for bandwidth 
> > control?
> 
> You can't do bandwidth shaping with iptables alone, you need the tc tools
> to do that.  The packets are (can be) tagged with iptables, then the tc
> stuff assigns them to queues for the bandwidth management.  It's a pain
> to set up initially.  I've been told to look into cbq at
> ftp://ftp.equinox.gu.net/pub/linux/cbq/ but I've not done that yet.  It
> looks decent, though.
> 
> --Danny, who thinks that iptables should have some way to limit bandwidth anyway :)
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