Help: Linux rate limiting

Hey,

Currently i have a linux box as my router. My flatmates use a lot of the bandwidth, mainly upstream as they sit on dc++ and other p2p applications 24/7, which is starting to piss me off

Does someone know a way of limiting p2p uploads/downloads, or limiting certain ips in linux?

I thought that putting a thread in here may help other ppl with the same problems (ie if a wifi user was using all their bandwidth for p2p)

Thanks

Noodles,

One way would/could be to use star-os as the gateway/auth system then your flatmates could be ratelimited dowe to 1kb/s I did this for kickes just to see if it works and it works well. You ratelimit depending on the users login.

There are other altenatives but this is a "Boxed Solution" and works.

This will work both for Wireless and Wired clients.

only problem is i'd like to keep my router as a linux box :P

i'm just difficult like that

Hey Noodles, These are a couple of sites that I've found that may help you out:
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This is a great site which I use for anything to do with linux routing (has a great zebra intro as well). Has some really good tips on using tc (traffic control, in the iproute2 package) and a few other random goodies.

[*]http://www.sonicspike.net/software/ (right at the bottom of page)

This is about limiting on a DSL connection. I havn't tried it myself. Basically, the author created it because wondershaper (coming up next) employs a flawed way of shaping traffic and this software doesnt require kernel patches. Looks interesting though...

[*]http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

This is a very generic script that basically puts all bulk traffic (i.e. not TCP ACK's, pings, web traffic) into a bulk class, and lets priority traffic (e.g. ACK's, pings and web traffic) traverse the queue and get better responsiveness, even with large downloads. Requires some calibrating. Doesn't quite work for me, For some reason I get _bad_ bandwidth starvation

[*]http://webs.sinectis.com.ar/lesanti/shaperd/

ShaperD, a daemon that runs in userspace and manages bandwidth shaping. Can do it for masqueraded hosts (NAT) but AFAIK requires another kernel patch (may be included in your distros kernel though). Haven't tested this one either, but looks pretty good.[list]

Hope that helps dude,
Cheers,
Chris.

Use OpenBSD ....

OpenBSD 3.3 has Altq built into pf...

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html

...


as I have said many a time... OpenBSD is the neat!

:P

Well that solves that.

j/k, I've actually been wanting to try a BSD but tech that I use on my linux router (e.g. PPTP, funky net drivers (odd net cards) and a few other things) may not be supported under BSD, and I've never had the motovation to take the plunge and have a look.

Linux has priority scheduling built in, based on the TOS header in the packet, it is able to route like that, but many network aware programs (especially windows ones) do not set this bit rendering it useless.

Cheers,
Chris.