[ale] Throttling traffic on firewall

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dow Hurst wrote:

> A project is needing a firewall capable of throttling bandwidth to prevent
> overcharging by an ISP.  I'd like to use the iproute2 package, I think.  
> The online documents I have found so far are a bit sparse and confusing to
> me.  Has anyone any experience with limiting a large pipe and controlling
> bandwidth based on domain name or IP?  Thanks, Dow

It's fairly straight-forward using ip and tc.  The only major requirement is 
that you have a Linux router upstream of the boxes you wish to throttle.  
Your best reference for getting it going is the Advanced Routing+Traffic
Control HOWTO <http://ds9a.nl/lartc/>.

As Greg pointed out, though, depending upon what you're trying to do, there 
may be more appropriate solutions than tc.

later,
chris


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