Hi again, I have a router with two wireless cards. As I always enjoy the odd open AP to check my emails on the go, I decided I'd reciprocate. I thus have configured one of the Wi-Fi interface as open.
However, I wouldn't want people to abuse this b service.b I put it there for them to check their emails, not download big amounts of data (which is also capped to a given monthly volume by my ISP). My goal is then to shape the bandwidth on this network (by not putting packets on the wireless network as fast as they could, thus forcing the tranport to adapt) using AltQ. However, rather than setting a global limit, I'd rather set a limit per user (I assume one user equals one IP here, all limitations and flaws considered). I've been reading docs and tutorial (and still am), but I can't figure a way to limit each user to, say, 500Kb/s* without explicitly creating as many queues as possible IP addresses in the network, disregarding that 500Kb for 253** users would just saturate the network. Of course, I don't want them to be able to borrow any of the remaining bandwidth either. In summary, in a network with 11Mbps with, say three visitors, each of them can get 500Kb/s download, and nothing more. If all of them use it, the network will see 1.5Mb/s of its bandwidth occupied (and so will my uplink), while the other 8.5 (out of the 90% of 11Mb/s) will remain blissfully unused, waiting for another user (or the same user with yet another device). Is there a concise and elegant way to define such a ruleset? Thanks again! * Actually, maybe I should reconsider this value. ** I don't want to think about IPv6 if I have to write this ruleset manually (; -- Olivier Mehani <sht...@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 4435 CF6A 7C8D DD9B E2DE F5F9 F012 A6E2 98C6 6655 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
