On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Iīm ask my self if there is an utility to resctrict the bandwidht consumed > by services. The problem is that when someone use ftp service or smtp > service with a important size of byte, others canīt use services on our > little network. > > Is There any utility which allows me restrict the use of bandwidht? Itīs > possible restrict by service and or by IP, users etc...
Linux has excellent support for bandwidth shaping, but you will need to tweak it quite a bit before everything works perfectly in your environment. Have a look at the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control Howto: http://lartc.org/howto/ And specifically the Queueing Disciplines chapter: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html -- Erik Grinaker http://erikg.wired-networks.net This signature has been rot13-encrypted twice, reading it is illegal under the terms of the DMCA.
