[LARTC] Limit Rates in more scalable and efficient way

[Michele Petrazzo - Unipex srl]

fhartman at hsr.ch wrote:
> 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 is right.

> This means lots of configuration if i had many customers to setup 
> traffic shaping for.
> 

If you have a lot of customers and not a "automatic" process, yes.

> I can filter for ip-ranges, but then all ip's of that range share the
>  set bandwidth of the class.

right

> 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.
> 

Add ok, but why you need to "delete" and "process" a lot of IP/customers?

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

Here we haven't thousand of ip, but I thinks it's the same because we
develop a simple, but working solution internally that talk with a db
and ip/mac/dhcp and do the work (create class with its speed).
Just done a: cat firewall_* | wc -l and there is not so much lines:
about 1100 plus that for little internal site (where the user insert his
credential plus the admin part for add, delete, etc..) that are 2600.
I think that with a 4/5 day of work you can do your self the same.

I think, however, that if you need some advice for create the right
limiting policy and its implementation, this it the right place!

Michele