How can I control bandwidth in RHEL 5 using iptables?
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6On an unrelated note, you should go through your previously asked questions and accept answers if they solved your problemMichael Mrozek– Michael Mrozek2010-12-14 07:06:04 +00:00Commented Dec 14, 2010 at 7:06
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You can't by iptables alone. You should mark packets in the mangle table and then apply QoS with the tc program.
A simple tc script to limit eth0 to 10Mbit/s:
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 10240kbit latency 50ms burst 1540
This article, while targeted at ArchLinux users, has a nice explanation on how to use tc and iptables for marking packets, and the commands and concepts explained are quite "distro agnostic".
answered Dec 14, 2010 at 8:48
