Best way to do traffic shaping?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:59:43PM +0000, (``-_-????) -- Fernando wrote:
> 
> Couldnt fine any reference to CBQ or intrinsic on synaptic.
> I better keep looking. Thanks.

You probably want to look at both 'shaper' and 'shaperd'. From the
shaperd docs:

Advice
======

Try CBQ first, http://ds9a.nl/lartc (no kidding).

Intro
=====

Shaperd is a user-mode program (a.k.a. daemon) that can shape traffic
passing through a linux box. I began to write it because I was tired
of waiting for the echoes when I telnet other machines over my slow
ppp link to the internet. I did try cbq and shaper, but none satisfied
me (It wasnt well-documented at the time, but now this is history :-).
Cbq is very powerful and generic (try it!), but has a rather steep
learning curve. Besides, I was looking for something cool to play with
:-).



halb at honey:~$ dpkg --list shaper
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version         Description
+++-===============-===============-==============================================
ii  shaper          2.2.12-0.7.3-2. Traffic shaper init script (cbq.init) for Linux



halb at honey:~$ dpkg --list shaperd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version         Description
+++-===============-===============-==============================================
ii  shaperd         0.2.1-5.1       A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks


-- 
Hal