[freenet-support] Bandwidth limiting of outgoing traffic...
Hi all! Has anyone been able to accurately shape the bandwidth consumption of freenet traffic leaving your server? I know there are options in freenet.conf, but it seems that these are either ignored totally or at the very least not very strictly abided by... Since Freenet uses random ports for outgoing traffic, I can't really shape it on my firewall either. (I do have an option to shape traffic based on packet content. Do all Freenet packages have some common, unique content perhaps?) The Freenet site suggested to control the bandwidth usage on the OS-level instead. Who can tell me how to do this? Regards, Evert ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freenet-support] Bandwidth limiting of outgoing traffic...
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Evert Meulie wrote: Hi all! Has anyone been able to accurately shape the bandwidth consumption of freenet traffic leaving your server? I know there are options in freenet.conf, but it seems that these are either ignored totally or at the very least not very strictly abided by... Really? Last time I tested it, outputBytes seemed to work okay. You _did_ set it in bytes per second, correct? And to what level are you trying to limit it? Since Freenet uses random ports for outgoing traffic, I can't really shape it on my firewall either. (I do have an option to shape traffic based on packet content. Do all Freenet packages have some common, unique content perhaps?) They shouldn't. Sadly they do at the moment (well not individual packets, but connections), but they won't in future. The Freenet site suggested to control the bandwidth usage on the OS-level instead. Who can tell me how to do this? Regards, Evert -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freenet-support] Bandwidth limiting of outgoing traffic...
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:06:04PM +0200, Evert Meulie wrote: Since Freenet uses random ports for outgoing traffic, I can't really shape it on my firewall either. (I do have an option to shape traffic based on packet content. Do all Freenet packages have some common, unique content perhaps?) The Freenet site suggested to control the bandwidth usage on the OS-level instead. Who can tell me how to do this? On linux you can tag packets with the iptables MARK target based on uid or pid, and then use tc (from iproute2) filters to select only the marked packets. No icky looking inside packets required. If you're shaping traffic on a different machine than the one running freenet it's slightly more complicated, as the iptables MARKs don't go out on the network, they're just there while the local machine is juggling the packet. What I do is encode the appropriate policy in the TOS header with --set-tos in the mangle table based on a MARK I set based on the uid. Then, on the machine that does the traffic shaping you just prioritise or drop based on the tos field, optionally resetting it before pushing it out on the wire. Similar facilities are available on many other OSes. -- Frank v Waveren Key fingerprint: BDD7 D61E [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5D39 CF05 4BFC F57A Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/468D62C8 FA00 7D51 468D 62C8 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
