Friday, October 10, 2008

You can Control Your Network Traffic with Wondershaper in Linux


Suppose If you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry, you can  control your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper.

sudo apt-get install wondershaper

official site : http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

Readme files in /usr/share/doc/wondershaper

$ifconfig this will help you to find the network interface (eth0, eth1 or wifi0 etc..)

Now
$sudo wondershaper eth0 downspeed upspeed
eg: sudo wonderspeed 128 64

To Disable this settings

$sudo wondershaper clear eth0

make these connection settings permanent by editing /etc/network/interfaces file :

$ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces and add the following lines

up /sbin/wondershaper eth0 downspeed upspeed
down /sbin/wondershaper clear eth0

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