Re: QoS and shaping



In comp.os.linux.networking Kevin Brown <itismekevinb-NOSPAM-@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello all,

> I work for a wireless ISP and we are having some issues with
> subscribers hogging too much bandwidth. Each customer is
> limited to what they are paying for (128kbit,640,1024,etc)
> but, the problem lies when people download steady for more
> than a half hour. It seems like a wireless problem since when
> heavy downloading occurs, it only hurts people on the same POP.

> I'm wondering if there's a way to limit these downloaders to a
> half decent rate when other people are trying to access the Internet.
> I am in the process of setting up some HTB queues on our master
> router, but I'm wondering if there's software that will track
> bandwidth on a per IP basis and run a certain script when conditions
> are met (i.e. after twenty minutes of 500kbit/s+, limit them to
> 100kbit/s).

> Any ideas on howto efficiently share our bandwidth?

I'd setup squid as transparent proxy and use its delay pools
feature, which should allow to do that. You can even limit the
download rate for specific file types and more.

Good luck

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