Q: Limit client's bandwith-usage of router/gateway?

Hello NG!

I have the following problem:

I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe gateway.
SuSe is routing via iptables.

Now one of the clients is using the internet bandwith heavily. The user
won't regulate himself, so I have to regulate him, as it seems.
But how?

I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the client to
use maximum 50% of this bandwith.
Can anybody tell me how?

Thanx for any hint.
Tom.

p.s. i have samba running as pdc on the linux box.

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:02:34 +0200, Tom H. Lautenbacher wrote:

> Hello NG!
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe gateway.
> SuSe is routing via iptables.
>
> Now one of the clients is using the internet bandwith heavily. The user
> won't regulate himself, so I have to regulate him, as it seems. But how?
>
> I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the client
> to use maximum 50% of this bandwith.
> Can anybody tell me how?
>
> Thanx for any hint.
> Tom.
>
> p.s. i have samba running as pdc on the linux box.
How are these boxes connected to yours? A hub?

hello nunya!

>> I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe
>> gateway. SuSe is routing via iptables.
>>
>> Now one of the clients is using the internet bandwith heavily. The
>> user won't regulate himself, so I have to regulate him, as it seems.
>> But how?
>>
>> I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the
>> client to use maximum 50% of this bandwith.
>> Can anybody tell me how?

> How are these boxes connected to yours? A hub?

the linux box has got two NICs (Twisted Pair, 100MBit). One is connected to
the DSL-modem, and one to a network switch. into this switch are plugged
from time to time some workstations and permanently a hub. in this hub there
are plugged permanently 2 workstations.

cu
tom

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:11:19 +0200, Tom H. Lautenbacher wrote:

> hello nunya!
>
>>> I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe
>>> gateway. SuSe is routing via iptables.
>>>
>>> Now one of the clients is using the internet bandwith heavily. The user
>>> won't regulate himself, so I have to regulate him, as it seems. But
>>> how?
>>>
>>> I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the
>>> client to use maximum 50% of this bandwith. Can anybody tell me how?
>
>> How are these boxes connected to yours? A hub?
>
> the linux box has got two NICs (Twisted Pair, 100MBit). One is connected
> to the DSL-modem, and one to a network switch. into this switch are
> plugged from time to time some workstations and permanently a hub. in this
> hub there are plugged permanently 2 workstations.
>
> cu
> tom
Start here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/c1121.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1285

"Tom H. Lautenbacher" <13-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the client to
> use maximum 50% of this bandwith.
> Can anybody tell me how?

You can do it with LARC :-)
<http://lartc.org/howto/index.html>


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Tom H. Lautenbacher wrote:

> Hello NG!
>
> I have the following problem:
>
> I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe gateway.
> SuSe is routing via iptables.
>
> Now one of the clients is using the internet bandwith heavily. The user
> won't regulate himself, so I have to regulate him, as it seems.
> But how?
>
> I have got internet access with 1024/512 kb/s. I want to allow the client
> to use maximum 50% of this bandwith.
> Can anybody tell me how?
>
> Thanx for any hint.
> Tom.
>
> p.s. i have samba running as pdc on the linux box.
Assuming the router/firewall is a Linux box, you need the tc command.

David

hello David!

>> I am administering a LAN, with some Windows clients and an SuSe
>> gateway. SuSe is routing via iptables.
>> p.s. i have samba running as pdc on the linux box.

> Assuming the router/firewall is a Linux box, you need the tc command.

i found the tc command, but there is no man-file and no help for it. can you
tell me how to get infos about the usage?

thanx
tom