[sclug] Testing traffic shaping

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, James Wyper wrote:

> I've attempted to set up some simple traffic shaping on my box at home
> (which acts as internet gateway / router / firewall for my home network)
> using Shorewall.  The main reason for doing this is to stop my [wife's]
> internet browsing slowing to a crawl when an upload-heavy application
> (Bittorrent, rsync etc.) is running.
>
> I'm not convinced that it's working properly yet, but can't prove it.  Can
> anyone recommend a tool that for a given network interface and a given
> interval (say 10 seconds) can show me the rate at which traffic is passing
> through, split by source and / or destination port?

ntop <http://www.ntop.org/>

> And if anyone else has got Shorewall's traffic shaping to work, or can
> recommend a simpler alternative, please let me know.  I'm currently
> running Mandrake 10.1 (but may switch to Kubuntu soon).

The Wonder Shaper <http://lartc.org/wondershaper/> script?

> Thanks,
> James.

HTH,
Alex.
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