On May 6, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Dan Egli wrote:

> *It has some potential, I agree, having looked it over a bit. But the
> problem with Wonder Shaper (at least as I understand it) is that it doesn't
> restrict anything. Recall that I was looking to restrict certain
> ports/services/programs to less than what my bandwidth would be. This was
> for multiple reasons, not the least of which is I don't want one system to
> dominate the download pipe (or the upload pipe, but downloads are far more
> of a worry at this stage). I might look at it again, but I don't recall
> seeing anything in the Wonder Shaper scripts that would say, for example,
> Bittorrents and HTTP downloads are restricted to 10 mbit/s, meanwhile SSH
> and it's related (scp, etc...) can use up the whole bandwidth available to
> the NIC.*
> 
> * *
> 
> *Maybe I missed it, and if so I'll go look again. But as my memory works,
> Wonder Shaper, nice that it is, isn't what I'm looking for. *


Last time I looked into it, you had to combine a tc command with a separate 
iptables command to restrict per-port traffic. I've always written it off as 
too much trouble and gone with a more blunt instrument (per-interface 
throttling). I was only doing short-term testing, though. I've never used tc 
for long term traffic shaping.

--Dave

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