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Limiting Bandwidth Per User in Ubuntu

  • 12-04-2010 4:56pm
    #1
    mossy464
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    You may have seen some other posts by me about my final year college project. Im implementing a network management website.

    Iv got a lot of the functionality working at this stage but one part is allocating bandwidth.

    Iv got an eircom 3mb broadband connection and I want to be able to split this between users. At the moment I only have my desktop and laptop on the network. Im looking for advice on how i can do this with iptables or the tc tool in ubuntu.

    My website is on an ubuntu virtual machine and written in php. Whatever about running the iptables and tc commands from php I still need to figure out the actual commands i need to use in the first place.

    Can anyone give me some advice on this? Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    mossy464
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭mossy464


    Sorry I really should have put this in the unix or nets and comms section


  • #3
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Moved from development.


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    What you're looking for mostly is QoS (Quality of Service) and it's complex enough. Google is your friend. This is doable in Linux alright. Haven't done it myself though I've had a look into it. I'm pretty sure tc is not what you want (though it is useful for limiting bandwidth, I don't *think* it gives very fine grained control).


  • #5
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    You could use a local squid install I would say and force the users through the local cache.

    http://www.squid-cache.org/

    look into delay pools, there might be nicer ways but as it's for a college project this should give you the desired result


  • #6
    Tillotson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Tillotson


    Or maybe shorewall

    You could look at the source of the webmin module (which I assume is written in Perl) and try implementing that in PHP.


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  • #7
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Tillotson wrote: »
    Or maybe shorewall

    You could look at the source of the webmin module (which I assume is written in Perl) and try implementing that in PHP.

    I haven't used shorewall for years, but, I don't think you can limit on a linux "user" with it.


  • #8
    mossy464
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭mossy464


    I have finally got somewhere now with the bandwidth allocation. :)

    I have ubuntu set up as a router and I am using iptables and the tc command.

    I used some commands I found and altered them to suit my set up but im not exactly sure what each command does. See commands:
    sudo tc qdisc del dev eth1 root
sudo tc qdisc add dev eth1 root handle 1: htb
sudo tc class add dev eth1 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 200kbit
sudo tc class add dev eth1 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 200kbit ceil 200kbit prio 2
sudo tc filter add dev eth1 parent 1:0 prio 2 protocol ip handle 10 fw flowid 1:10
sudo iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -d 192.168.0.2 -j MARK --set-mark 10
sudo tc qdisc add dev eth1 ingress
sudo tc filter add dev eth1 parent ffff: protocol ip handle 50 fw police rate 200kbit mtu 12k burst 10k drop
sudo iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -s 192.168.0.2 -j MARK --set-mark 50

    After running these commands I downloaded a file on 192.168.0.2 and it was downloading at around 20kB/s. success it worked.

    I understand the iptables commands, they are marking the packets on the host.

    The tc commands are confusing though like classid 1:1 etc.


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