On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:18:26AM -0500, Stefan Schueller wrote: > I did get some limiting to work but it's not working the way I want and > that's mostly because I still don't understand some of the commands I'm > using. I want to limit my total bandwidth to a maximum of 256kbits but I > don't want one user to take it all. I also don't want to have everyone > suffer because one site has a lot of hits. I want to make the site with the > high traffic slower than the other sites but I don't want the total to go > over 256kbits. The IP of the high traffic site is 209.150.199.225. All > others should be able to download at a speed up to 200k and have priority > over the high traffic site. Ok. What you want is a 256kbit/s CBQ with SFQ within. > Also does anyone have a nice traffic monitor that shows me the traffic of > each IP which I can use with rrdtool? I have cban right now but it only > shows overall traffic on the adapter. I use iptables to make rules matching each IP, and then hook that up to rrdtool with some sed/grep magic. > Here is what I have right now. It is limiting traffic at 256kbits more or > less but I still get spikes over 1mbits which kills my avarage and gets me > the high ISP bill at the end of the month. You may want to read http://ds9a.nl/lartc/manpages - It will explain the stuff you are guessing at. How does your ISP measure your usage? 10 second interval? The ISPs I know use a 5 minute interval. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk Netherlabs BV / Rent-a-Nerd.nl - Nerd Available - Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control: http://ds9a.nl/lartc