In article <G2tYa.10185$(E-Mail Removed)>, Nick wrote:
> I have two network cards and my linux machine is my router and wish
> to cap eth1 for like 70kb/s downstream and 10kb/upstream is there any
> software
> avaliable that can help me with this ?
> I took a look on freshmeat however failed to find anything.
>
There is a host of things you can do, probably the best place to look is
http://lartc.org/
This pretty much will cover everything you need to cap upload/download.
However you will probably be a lot more interested in prioritizing your
traffic. For example. You might of noticed that when you upload at your
full speed your download speed is severely hurt; this is due to the nature of
TCP (toasting of the return ACK packets). With QoS (Quality of Service, as
it is known in the trade) this no longer becomes a problem if properly
implemented and more importantly can be used to make sure your gaming traffic
and ssh/ping tools are unaffected even on a 'saturated' link in both
directions.
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you might want to look at my QoS script if you cannot be bothered to learn
QoS, it is actually quite difficult, and is why CISCO charge a couple of
grand for a black box which does this all for you
http://digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/
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happy reading
Alex
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