LARTC - Apr 2001 - Need guide for B/W control based on MAV address

Dear All,

I have four thick ethernet segments centrally connected to Intel switch. All
customers are using DHCP for IP confoguration so IP to MAC address mapping is
dynamic. Some of the clients are using proxy at thier end so they are eating big
pie of our Internet Bandwidth. I want to restrict those clients to specific
limit by using their MAC address.

I am controling bandwidth to some IPS by their FIX IPs, but regarding this
dynamic pool I am confused how to do so?

Please guide me how to control bandwidth on BASE of MAC address.

Thanking you in advance.

Regards
Bharat Merja.

Hi,
> I have four thick ethernet segments centrally connected to 
> Intel switch. All customers are using DHCP for IP confoguration 
> so IP to MAC address mapping is dynamic. Some of the clients 
> are using proxy at thier end so they are eating big pie of our Internet 
> Bandwidth. I want to restrict those clients to specific limit by using 
> their MAC address.
I think you can do this in 2.4 kernels by marking packets with iptabels based on
the MAC address and then do traffic control with tc based on the mark.

But unless you are really angry at these clients and don''t want them to
use free bandwidth you might  want to use WRR instead. It can do scheduling
based on MAC addresses - but only for packets which are bridged on your Linux
box and only on 2.2 kernels.


Christian