Hi, Well, I guess you are speaking about the bandwidth burst rate for each PC. At any given point of time, you can restrict your PCs to go up to a maximum of 75% of your bandwidth. You should be looking at the Linux traffic shaper for more details on this. There are different tools for doing this. One of them is the tc tool - Traffic control (http://www.rns-nis.co.yu/~mps/linux-tc.html) Or you can compile the LQL(Linux QoS Library) with the kernel for achieveing this(http://www.coverfire.com/lql/) See some of the other links: http://www.knowplace.org/shaper/ http://www.knowplace.org/shaper/examples.html http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1285 Regards. -- Hari http://hari.accosted.net On 7/27/05, Opesh Alkara <opeshalkara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear All, > (OS : Red Hat Linux ES 3.0) > Just wanted to know how can I restrict the banwidth usage by ethernet > interface of a particular/mulitple Linux machine in my internal LAN. > I want to limit my Linux systems to use only 75 % of the available machine > for any type of trafic. To be more specific at any time these systems > should > not cross the 75% of my LAN bandwidth. These machines are mass mailing > servers and hence use up all the available LAN bandwith to transfer mails > to > a central HUB mailserver which eventually delivers all the mails. Since > they > use all the available bandwidth leaving no room for admins to login and > monitor I wnt them to restrict to 75% of LAN bandwidth. Hope I have made > my > point clear > Waiting for replies. > Thanks for reading the mail. > > -- > Regards > Opesh Alkara > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
