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[ale] tcp bandwidth throttling
- Subject: [ale] tcp bandwidth throttling
- From: dkg at fifthhorseman.net (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:49:06 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1186006883.27979.2.camel@localhost> (Jim Popovitch's message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:21:23 -0400")
- References: <1186006883.27979.2.camel@localhost>
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
hth,
--dkg