On Tuesday 13 May 2003 18:47, Michael Ulitskiy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this question already came up in this list, but > I seem to be unable to find an answer for it. > I have a server and a few thousand of clients that can access > the server. I would like to setup a traffic shaping such a way > that each particulat client is given a particular bandwith. > Let's say each client (clients differentiated by ip address) is > allowed to use no more than 100kbit of download bandwith. > So it is my understanding that traffic should be differentiated > by flows and each flow should be given a particular bandwith > with any queueing discipline available. The question is how to > do it. > I can't figure out a way to accomplish it except writing thousands > of filtering rules for each ip and also thousands classes for them. > I probably can use hashing filters but it wouldn't eliminate > thousands of classes each with the same shaping rate. > So once again the question is whether it's possible to shape each > flow from a particular ip range to the particular rate? Not without creating a lot of classes. You can try the wrr qdisc : http://wipl-wrr.sourceforge.net/ It creates 1 class for each ip-addres (or mac-address) it sees. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.oftc.net
