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[13erla]

i'm not sure the exact term so i appoligize if this has been asked before.

i want to limit the upload and download speeds individually on select ports on a server.

server has red hat.. and whm and so forth.


and possibily limit individual IPs up and dl speeds individually.


thanks soo much

[Bashar]

on FreeBSD you can use ipfw to limit the speed, i believe its doable on redhat using iptables too

man iptables
and read the manual page

[SEATi]

There's also a tool that will allow you to do so, it's called shaper (shaperd is the name of the daemon).

[13erla]

odd my red hat box doesn't have shaper or shaperd...

i imagine i'd have to just locate the rpm and install it

[13erla]

whm rpm had shapecfg..

[13erla]

i grabbed shaperd doesn't have a man page though.. only manual i've found so far is a foreign translation to english..

kind of hard to follow.


any help would be really great.

[sehe]

you might want to give this tutorial a try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Co...WTO/index.html
and also visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/cbqinit/
you can use tc from the iproute2 package to limit outgoing traffic speed

[Bashar]

http://www.defcon1.org/html/NATD-con...up/ipfw-3.html thats for freebsd too

[Trix]

does anybody have a n00b friendly way of doing this?

[SEATi]

Well rate limiting isn't really a "n00b thing", you can use fair queueing, class based queueing or simple port/ip limiting.