[ale] tcp bandwidth throttling

[James Sumners]

See my previous reply. You can mark the packets you want limited with
iptables and reference those marks in your tc script.

On 8/1/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:49 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On Wed 2007-08-01 18:21:23 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >
> > > I've got some things that I want to restrict bandwidth for.
> > > Specifically, by port or IP, I want to limit bandwidth to a certain rate
> > > (i.e. 1Mb/s).   What are my options for doing this?
> >
> > The canonical source for this stuff on a low level in Linux is the
> > Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control (the LARTC).
> >
> > You're probably interested in the Queueing Disciplines for Bandwidth
> > Management:
> >
> >  http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html
>
> Thanks Daniel,
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but isn't tc based on physical interfaces as
> opposed to IP based?   I have a host with several IP addrs (using
> virtual interfaces) and want to limit a handful of IPs to a certain
> volume of traffic.  Can tc achieve this?
>
> -Jim P.


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