[GLLUG] traffic throtling

[Marshal Newrock]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:33:37 -0400
Mark Szidik/mlc <SzidikM at mlcnet.org> wrote:

> Any doing traffic shaping?  I want to limit outbound http traffic on
> one host to 1Mbps.  My research led me to /sbin/tc, but I don't
> really understand it.  Assuming this is the right tool, the examples
> I find online are more complex than what I need (making it hard to
> understand). Anyone able to help with this? 

Do you want to do this on the box itself or on a separate
firewall/router box?  If the latter, m0n0wall (freebsd-based) or
pfsense (m0n0wall-based) can do this without too much difficulty.  

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