Re: [flalug] Best way to limit bandwidth

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 21:06:29 EST


On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, jeff wrote:

> I have one luser on my home LAN that I wish to limit his (ab)use of
> bandwidth. Is there a good (as in quick and simple) tool in Linux that will
> let me restrict his usage at the server/firewall without negatively affecting
> the other users?

Hmm, never done that, but iptables might be able to do it. Also see
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO.html .

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