On Tuesday 03 May 2005 14:19, Oliver Marshall wrote: > Does anyone know of any linux based software that will act as a web > proxy but with the ability to throttle bandwidth ? > > We have a 1mb leased line, and people are maxing it out by downloading > things from websites. Now, they are allowed to, its part of the job, but > remote workers find it impossible to work on when this happens. I would > like to reroute all web surfers through something like squid, but have > that limit the total bandwidth for web surfing to say 512kbps (about 50% > of capacity) leaving enough for remote workers. > > Does anyone know of a way to do this? Im not a total linux newbie, but > obviously the easier the better. Ideally some package that has the > ability inbuilt would be good. > > Any ideas ? > > Olly
What you are describing is called "Traffic Shaping" You can use IPtables to perform traffic shaping. Googling comes up with a number of HOWTOs such as this one http://www.linuxexposed.com/Articles/Networking/Traffic-shaping-and-bandwidth-management.html If you want to use shorewall at the same time you should check this out http://www.shorewall.net/traffic_shaping.htm HTH derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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