[olug] Traffic Sahping and Bandwidth Throttling

[Phil Brutsche]

Nate Rotschafer wrote:
> I know we have several people on here who have probably done this, 
> especially Mr. Marsh.  I want to limit the bandwidth usage on my 
> server...not just apache but FTP and other stuff.  The easiest way to do 
> this I think is some type of policy routing/traffic shaping but I dunno 
> so I'm trying to get some ideas if anyone has some.

1) Make sure you have the /sbin/tc binary; it's in the iproute package 
if you're a Debian user

2) Read the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO at 
http://lartc.org

My experience is that policy routing is DEAD SIMPLE, but traffic control 
isn't nearly as simple.


Phil


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