[TriLUG] Throttling eth0 / eth1, etc.

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:36:37PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> I would like to know a way to throttle the kb/s on any given interface
> in RH9. Can this be done, "On the Fly"? See... uh... I have this linux
> server at home, and my WinXP Gaming machine. While gaming, I want to
> throttle down the linux machine, so ppl can still view my web site
> hosted on it, but at full-speed, I get unplayable, heinus lag.

Rudimentary throttling can be done with iputils's tc (userspace) in
conjunction with (kernel) QoS/fair queueing. Check out Wondershaper.
It's fair to note that it may be more effective to shape your
outbound than to try and throttle inbound.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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