Hi all, i've coded htb-gen, a GPL htb frontend and much more... htb-gen is meant to be an easy, scalable, yet powerfull, bandwidth management tool. You can set up/down portions of bandwith for each host or network, that goes trough your router/firewall. Prioritary traffic(web, mail, gaming, ftp, voip, streaming) is preferred over Junk traffic(kazaa, emule, etc). Also dynamic bandwith borrow and re-assignation is done betwen host thanks to htb boundaries. A web-frontend for config is avaible as well, so remote management is possible. All bash based so it can be used in embedded routers/firewalls (wired/wireless). Two backend are aviable: -generates raw tc commands -generates htb-init conf files (util for integration) The packet clasification is done by iptables Download is aviable at project page: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/htb-gen/ A conf file mai look like this: # down down up up # min max min max #ip (rate) (ceil) (rate) (ceil) 192.168.1.2 0 64 0 32 192.168.1.3 0 128 0 64 192.168.1.4 0 256 0 128 10.0.0.1/30 256 512 128 256 200.80.22.2 256 256 256 256 As you see -Is extremly easy to maintain a large amount of hosts/networks -ips from different newtorks are allowed(they have to pass FORWARD anyway) -newtork syntax is allowed, bw will be assigned to the network -fixed rate support, i can garantee some bw. -A 0(zero) in rate means that it will be automagickly calculated based on the ceil weigth, and the unassigned bandwidth -there are a lot more of posibilties, see DOCS Some deep explanation: The bw that you assign for each host is divided like this (this can be easy addapted if you know a litle bit of iptables): -Prio traffic - packets smallest than 100bytes (tcp ACKs, most icmp messages) - all icmp traffic (icmp messages) - all udp traffic (voip, streaming, real time gaiming, etc...) - some tcp ports (seteable in conf file, ie: http,pop3,imap,ssh...) -Default traffic (junk traffic) - all traffic that do not mach any of the above (ie:emule, torrent, kazaa, gnutella...and so on) By thefault the host bandwidth is shared betwen this two kind of traffic, but the script grants that anytime that i use "prio traffic" it will climb up to 90%, till that 'prio traffic' ends. This % can be modified if you want, see the 'rate_dfl_percet' value in conf. Also is posible to save junk bandwith assigning only a % of host ceil to the dfl traffic, see 'ceil_dfl_percet'. This will help to have several host sharing bw without almost any complaint. Regards! -- Luciano -- Luciano _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
