[CentOS] Limiting bandwidth

Sat Feb 20 12:25:42 UTC 2010
Bob McConnell <rmcconne at lightlink.com>

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