topic Re: bandwidth limiting in Operating System - Linux

bandwidth limiting

Muhammad Imran Hussain — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 05:23:48 GMT

Hi all

I've installed squid with delay pools feature which limits downloading @ 2KB, but for firewall applications like Kaaza that sucks my bandwidth, I want to limit bandwidth on per user basis thus per user gets 8Kbps.

any idea
thanks in advance

Re: bandwidth limiting

Mark Grant — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:21:42 GMT

You can limit on a per-user basis using delay-pools.

This is particularly explained here

http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/html/x1982.html

But the whole document is worth a thourough read

Re: bandwidth limiting

Claudio Cilloni — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:39:19 GMT

There are other tools for bandwidth limiting, like CBQ. It should be able to control the network traffic at IP-level.
You can look for Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO document at http://www.tldp.org.

Ciao,
Claudio

Re: bandwidth limiting

Stuart Browne — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:27:22 GMT

If you look at the Advanced Routing Howto, you'll also see that the inbuilt queueing and limiting stuff is quite advanced, using the 'tc' tool.

You can set up limits based on protocol, on user, on anything.

It's really quite fun.

Re: bandwidth limiting

Muhammad Imran Hussain — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:53:21 GMT

Hi

thanks for ur ideas

I've already installed squid with delay pools it's fine with FTP & HTTP downloading but the problem is Kazaa & other P2P apps. Therefore I want to restrict bandwidth on per user/IP or MAC @ 8Kbps.

Thanks in advance