On Monday 03 February 2003 01:47 am, Curca Claudiu wrote: > I'm using RedHat Linux 8.0 on an PIII - Coppermine 750 MHz. I used > Iptables for NAT networking at my home (5 PC's + 1 Server). > The server is used as a gateway and dns server. My question is: > > Is there any way I could limit the transfer rate of the inside > computers to the internet? > For example I want 192.168.3.5 to have a limit of 5 KB/s transfer > rate. > > Please help me!! You need to establish a Queueing Discipline. Your best choice would probably be Hierarchical Token Bucket. See http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.classful.html#AEN1050 in the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control how-to for details on HTB, (and the full how-to for all the info...) and the section following it entitled "Classifying packets with filters" which explains how to specify a filter that matches specific IPs, or use the 'fwmark' match to let you set a mark in an iptables mangle-table PREROUTING chain and queue traffic based on the marks. j
