Limit Bandwidth to/from One Host

I use iptables to share Internet access via cable modem among four PCs
at home. My son does a lot of downloading and file sharing so when
his PC is on, my network performance suffers.

He has a static private address: 192.168.0.4. What can I do to limit
bandwidth to or from this address to a maximum of, say, 128 kbps?

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Bob Simon
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Bob Simon wrote:

> I use iptables to share Internet access via cable modem among four PCs
> at home. My son does a lot of downloading and file sharing so when
> his PC is on, my network performance suffers.
>
> He has a static private address: 192.168.0.4. What can I do to limit
> bandwidth to or from this address to a maximum of, say, 128 kbps?

You can use tc to limit the bandwidth he can receive from your gateway;
check out the Advanced Routing Howto on www.tldp.org for all the nasty
details ;-)

J