[CentOS] Limiting bandwidth
Bob McConnell
rmcconne at lightlink.com
Sat Feb 20 12:25:42 UTC 2010
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Scenario:
> Centos box with eth1 (10.0.0.0/24) and eth0 (192.168.0.0/24)
> segment on eth0 has access to full bandwidth of uplink
> Both are on 100mbps switches
>
> Requirements:
> bandwith on segment on eth1 needs to be throttled to different speeds - say
> 32, 64, 128kbps and the such. Required for application performance testing
> purposes.
The best tool I have found for this is DummyNet, which is built into
FreeBSD. It was created to test protocol designs then adapted for
traffic management. However, I am not aware of any ports into Linux.
<http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/>
<http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/dummy/tutorial.htm>
Bob McConnell
N2SPP
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