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Intro - We are planning on applying for Bandwidth-on-Demand from our ISP which gives us upto 8Mbps of data upsteam/downstream. If we exceed the allowable bandwidth the ISP will bill us for additional cost per Mb of data exceeded.

Question - is there a way to setup an ubuntu server to limit the total upstream and downstream bandwidth on the internet facing interface (uplink) to 8Mbps?

Additional info - the server will also work as a gateway server distributing traffic to four subnets each with his own interface.

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Go low-complexity, just set your ethernet port to 10Mbps, the natural peaks and troughs will mean you're unlikely to over the 8Mbps.

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  • I didn't expect it to be that easy. Anyway i'll try your suggestion. How about rate limiting on the LAN side ethernet ports? Something that I can use cron to schedule the rate limiting.
    – jerichorivera
    Sep 11, 2011 at 12:41
  • +1 for a very KISS solution.
    – Paweł Brodacki
    Sep 11, 2011 at 13:27
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you could just setup tc on the interface and set the ceil rate to 8mbit.

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