[H-GEN] Traffic shaping

[Bradley Marshall]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 09:55:20PM +1000, Harry Phillips wrote:
> I would like to know how it is was done. I want to do the same thing at 
> a client's site. They already have a transparent proxy setup. The only 
> difference I would like is to be able to set a limit on the IP not just 
> the thread. So if they started multiple threads their bandwidth would be 
> limited to say 20k of the 50k ADSL connection. That way the usual 
> bandwidth hogs can't kill everyone elses connection.

I'd have a look at wondershaper as a start, and then the
rest of the docs at http://www.lartc.org/.  You can easily
shape traffic however you want.  I've deployed wondershaper
successfully on an ADSL link before, and it really helped.

Thanks,
Brad
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