[LARTC] elementary usage clamping

[Marco Aurelio]

use the HTB wondershaper that can be found at lartc.org

On 6/6/07, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> wrote:
> I'm pretty smart, and was once regarded as pretty network and computer
> savvy.  But the world has obviously passed me by!
>
> I have a server in a colocation facility, and I was recently hit by a
> bill for overage; I used more bandwidth than I expected, and I must
> pay.
>
> So now, I want to bother with packet shaping on the server.  The *most*
> important thing is to clamp bandwidth to the 1Mbps that my contract
> allows for.  This is well within my ordinary usage; there is no reason
> for me to want more.  But I must be careful about overage: when I am
> transferring large amounts of data, I don't mind waiting for how long it
> takes at 1Mbps (minus overhead), but I certainly don't want to pay lots
> extra!
>
> This is the most important thing.  The next thing is that, once the
> bandwidth has been clamped, I want to have the ability to be flexible
> about shaping traffic.  Obviously such things as ssh need priority, and
> then AFS, and then ftp and http.  But this is still really only a
> single-user case, so even if the shaping is not so great, it's ok.
>
> I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what tcng syntax would get me
> what I want.  Can someone help me?
>
> Thomas
>
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