Re: [Xen-users] Bandwidth Monitoring

Tim Freeman
Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:26:41 -0000

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 04:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
mrkris@mrkris.com wrote:

> Anyone have any recommendations on how to limit the bandwidth for a domU,
> say .. 1mb burstable or non burstable, along with say ... 300gb a month. I
> have some friends on my xen server and just wanna limit what they do. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.

The Linux tools http://lartc.org work well (we''ve used hierarchical
token bucket
mostly). You can treat the domains just like any other computer behind a
bridging firewall/bandwidth limiting node.  Looking at concrete examples was
helpful to me when I was first looking at it, e.g., search for htb tc linux

Tim