RE: Bandwidth management

From: Sami Dalouche (skoobi@email.com)
Date: 12/05/01 

From: "Sami Dalouche" <skoobi@email.com>
To: "'Mario R. Pizzolanti'" <mario@zavood.ee>, <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:14:34 +0100

Hey,

> Does anyone of a way to control the amount of bandwidth a subnet gets
> from a linux gateway?

I guess you have to learn a bit about the traffic shaper. It's a feature
in the 2.4 kernels (maybe 2.2 ?) that should allow to do whatever you
want concerning bandwith limits.
Try http://lwn.net/1998/1119/shaper.html or
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x1416.html

> It's very easy to do in FreeBSD with Dummynet.

I think it's also easy under linux ;-)

Sam

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