[LARTC] Sharing bandwidth

Ben bench@silentmedia.com
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:07:58 -0700 (PDT)


Yeah, look into HTB. It makes this problem easy.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Peter Kaagman wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've got the following problem on my hand.....
> I'm a sysop for a school in the netherlands. We have a network with 5 
> different schools (and 1 administration). Each of those have their own 
> ip range in the private network (10.4.0.0 10.5.0.0 and so on).
> For all these schools we have an internet uplink of 2mbit. And this 
> bandwidth should be shared as fairly as possible.
> 
> So I started reading the the lartc HOWTO but was startled by the 
> technical terms I found there...... I kinda understand what i meant..... 
> but would like some advice which option I should further investigate.
> 
> What I want to do is spit up the 2mbit pipe in 6. Guarantee 1/6 of the 
> bandwidth per network and allowing more if it is availlable.
> 
> Is this possible? If so which traffic control scheme should I investigate?
> 
> regards
> 
> Peter
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