sam Njengah wrote: > I have done a lot of reading as suggest . Now please help me with the setup > of bandwidth management by ip. firstly, you want to setup some qdiscs of different speeds/limits. the type will depend on if you want to slow the traffic to a fixed speed, or limit the maximum speed. http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html#LARTC.QDISC.EXPLAIN then you need to create filters to put the traffic from the particular IPs into the appropriate queues. http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.adv-filter.html#LARTC.ADV-FILTER.U32 it's really all in the examples in the howto. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~