On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Payal Rathod wrote: PR> My branch office as got a 256Kbps b/w from their service provider at a PR> very very high rate per Mb. They don't require 256Kbps at all but the PR> ISP does not offer anything low. Can we restrict the bandwith to say PR> 64Kbps nothing fancy? How do I go about it? Payal, I've had success limiting bandwidth on interfaces for our wireless networks. Patrons are coming in with P2P applications that hog the whole pipe if you let them. For us, these intefaces are on a firewall with two network cards and these statements did the trick limiting traffic to 256K coming and going: tc qdisc delete dev eth0 root tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf limit 5kb burst 5kb rate 256kbit tc qdisc delete dev eth1 root tc qdisc add dev eth1 root tbf limit 5kb burst 5kb rate 256kbit You have to at least have iproute2 (or in my case, becuase we use Debian "iproute") installed so the "tc" command is recognized. Hope this is useful! -- ******************************************************************** Brett Charbeneau Network Administrator Williamsburg Regional Library 7770 Croaker Road Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064 (757)259-4044 www.wrl.org (757)259-4079 (fax) brett@xxxxxxx ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
