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My question is I am trying to limit a users bandwidth on a server and wondering the best way to do this. Before I dive to far into the tc/iptables I was wondering if I could get any advice on this and if someone could give me a sample config that might be something I can play around with, it would be greatly appreciated.

From what I understand you can make rules with tc then apply the rules with iptables using the mark statement. Some people say to use the mangle postrouting or output, but not 100% sure which one is best or if it even matters. I believe with tc I will be using the htb (token bucket to limit bandwidth) however people say there are performance trade off's and I am looking for the lowest latency method. These users are not on the internal network, but connecting to a server.

I have two types of users, so there only needs to be two rules to limit them. So far what I can see is the tc/iptables combo to be what I want, but am open for suggestions for alternatives.

I think for iptables the command will look like

Bandwidth limit rule 1

iptables -A PREROUTING -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t mangle -j MARK --set-mark 0x1

Bandwidth limit rule 2

iptables -A PREROUTING -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -t mangle -j MARK --set-mark 0x2

What I want to happen

  • User comes in on eth0 (their IP will be known. Not random IP's)
  • requests info from server
  • server sends out info on eth0 back to user with rule applied
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  • You are on the right track as I've seen TC and iptables used together as well. A note on the token buckets is that latency is its main downfall I've read when compared to other types of TC filtering methods. There will be added latency on your packets when using token buckets. Here is a tutorial page which may be of some use, it doesn't entirely apply to your configuration but may help: cyberciti.biz/faq/…
    – RCG
    Nov 19, 2014 at 8:10

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Using tc is a right way for shaping in linux. The best documentation is LARTC. First of all you need to understand what kind of traffic will you shape - egress or ingress. After that you must to choose an interface to doing that (it is simpler to shape ingress traffic on outgoing interface based on source addresses before NAT and egress traffic on local interface based on destination address after NAT). Also there may be no iptables rules at all for example if you using different interfaces (may be VLAN interfaces) for your two types of users. After that you should set up qdiscs on interfaces you chose. it may be classless if your users divided by interfaces or classful if you using one interface to shape bandwidth for few users type. And after that you must set up a filter (if you use classful scheme). There are many examples in the link below. Good luck...

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