Some resources and notes re limiting bandwidth usage on an Internet (or network) connection.

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Resources

• http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/cbq.html
• http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/howto/
• Basic rules for traffic shaping recommended by someone else (on Debian list?) -- barely browsed, looks promising

Notes

Does Linux QOS (Quality of Service) generally imply controlling bandwidth usage?

Useful Emails

Subject: Re: [expert] Restricting Resourse Usage
      Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:07:52 -0400
     From: Pierre Fortin

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:53:06 -0400 Brian York <bcyork2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource
> usage that a user on a remote computer can use?

Several:

1. http://www.chronox.de/ Uses kernel features

2. http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/ This can be run on a separate box, or on and "end-node" and setup to restrict traffic. It's intended to test the impact of network restrictions and degradations; but should work to emulate a 200kbps link.

3. Use Python's SocketServer.Forking{TCP,UDP}Server modules and insert a delay between in/out (semi-kidding... hopefully, you didn't need to read this far... :^)

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• RandyKramer - 22 Apr 2002
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