traffic shaping

David Bandel david.bandel
Sat Feb 5 17:00:41 PST 2005


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:06:44 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> Anyone done any traffic shaping?  Specifically, I've got a customer who's
> complaining about bandwidth problems into an Indian office, and wants to
> control the priority of packets split between cvs and https traffic.
> Specifically, he wants to guarentee 30% for https between their Indian
> office and a server i'm responsible for, or cap cvs (over ssh) to 70%.
> 
> Is this even possible?  Alternatively, is it possible for them to do the
> shaping on their end?
> 
> thanks!

Yes, all is possible, though not always easy.  traffic shaping has
been a large PITA as long as I've worked with it.

My suggestion is to get cbq.init:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cbqinit

There are a _lot_ of things you can do with this, but it is a bit of a
bear until you understand what's going on.  Follow the examples, but
read the script and you can see that it can all be done from a command
line (ugh).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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