[LARTC] Egress shaping recommendations (based on source ip)

[Andy Furniss]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I'm trying to set up customer egress shaping on concentrator that customers
> connect to using pptp (which uses pppd).  This means customers each have a
> pppXXX interface when they connect.  It's easy to shape their "down" speed
> this way, and when they disconnect the interface is gone and thus the
> shaping rules automatically go away as well.
> 
> However, shaping their upload (traffic that forwards from their ppp
> interface and out the ethernet interface on the server) is a different
> matter and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it.

You could use policers on the ppps or IFBs with recent kernels. IFB is a 
device that lets you shape ingress traffic.

Andy.