LARTC - Oct 2007 - Limit Rates in more scalable and efficient way

Hello

I''m looking for a more efficient way to limit rates to different
clients.

Right now as I understand it, I have to make a class for every
customer/ip-address I''d like to limit bandwidth.
This means lots of configuration if i had many customers to setup traffic
shaping for.

I can filter for ip-ranges, but then all ip''s of that range share the
set bandwidth of the class.
I''d like a fixed rate for every ip in a group without configuring
classes for each address!
It''s a lot of work to configure thousands of ip addresses if I have
make thousand classes for it.
Adding, Deleting and Processing won''t be very efficient that way.

Is there someone who had the same problems and got to a solution or am I just
asking too much?

regards
Fabian

Sometime ago i had written a bash script that read from a file
containing the list of ips and built all the needed classes.
unfortunately i do not have it anymore [hd crash and no backup :/] ,
but at least you know it can be relatively easy to automate this task.

On 10/5/07, fhartman@hsr.ch <fhartman@hsr.ch>
wrote:
> Hello
>
> I''m looking for a more efficient way to limit rates to different
clients.
>
> Right now as I understand it, I have to make a class for every
customer/ip-address I''d like to limit bandwidth.
> This means lots of configuration if i had many customers to setup traffic
shaping for.
>
> I can filter for ip-ranges, but then all ip''s of that range share
the set bandwidth of the class.
> I''d like a fixed rate for every ip in a group without configuring
classes for each address!
> It''s a lot of work to configure thousands of ip addresses if I
have make thousand classes for it.
> Adding, Deleting and Processing won''t be very efficient that way.
>
> Is there someone who had the same problems and got to a solution or am I
just asking too much?
>
> regards
> Fabian
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fhartman@hsr.ch wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I''m looking for a more efficient way to limit rates to different 
> clients.
> 
> Right now as I understand it, I have to make a class for every 
> customer/ip-address I''d like to limit bandwidth.
This is right.
> This means lots of configuration if i had many customers to setup 
> traffic shaping for.
> 
If you have a lot of customers and not a "automatic" process, yes.
> I can filter for ip-ranges, but then all ip''s of that range share
the
>  set bandwidth of the class.
right
> I''d like a fixed rate for every ip in a group without configuring
> classes for each address! It''s a lot of work to configure
thousands
> of ip addresses if I have make thousand classes for it. Adding,
> Deleting and Processing won''t be very efficient that way.
> 
Add ok, but why you need to "delete" and "process" a lot of
IP/customers?
> Is there someone who had the same problems and got to a solution or 
> am I just asking too much?
> 
Here we haven''t thousand of ip, but I thinks it''s the same
because we
develop a simple, but working solution internally that talk with a db
and ip/mac/dhcp and do the work (create class with its speed).
Just done a: cat firewall_* | wc -l and there is not so much lines:
about 1100 plus that for little internal site (where the user insert his
credential plus the admin part for add, delete, etc..) that are 2600.
I think that with a 4/5 day of work you can do your self the same.

I think, however, that if you need some advice for create the right
limiting policy and its implementation, this it the right place!

Michele