[LARTC] Limit Rates in more scalable and efficient way

[fhartman at hsr.ch]

Hello

I'm looking for a more efficient way to limit rates to different clients.

Right now as I understand it, I have to make a class for every customer/ip-address I'd like to limit bandwidth.
This means lots of configuration if i had many customers to setup traffic shaping for.

I can filter for ip-ranges, but then all ip's of that range share the set bandwidth of the class.
I'd like a fixed rate for every ip in a group without configuring classes for each address!
It's a lot of work to configure thousands of ip addresses if I have make thousand classes for it.
Adding, Deleting and Processing won't be very efficient that way.

Is there someone who had the same problems and got to a solution or am I just asking too much?

regards
Fabian