Bandwidth Limiting with HTBinit

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Do you run a web server on a machine with limited upload bandwidth? Sick of having really high latency in ssh sessions when your page is being accessed? HTB is the answer!

I followed the basic howto from this site:
http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/linux_tc_minihowto.shtml
It basically said to

• Configure kernel for traffic shaping.
  
• emerge iproute2
  
• emerge htbinit

And that was the easy part. Now that we have htbinit installed, it's time to set it up. The howto above will handle a simple case, but I had something a little more complex in mind.

In the /etc/htb directory, you need to make a series of configuration files. These files define the hierarchy of rules and rates that htbinit will use to generate startup commands.

For my setup, I've defined a single node on eth0 at a really huge bandwidth [2]. That node has two children: local [3] and remote [4]. Local has the same large pipe and a rule that specifies data must have a source and destination on the local subnet. Remote has a pipe that is defined as 45KB/s (slightly slower than the upload speed of my cablemodem). The Remote node has two children: www [10] and def [30]. www has a rate of 240kb/s (about 30KB/s) and a rule that specifies that the data must be originating from my webserver port. The default case has the full 30KB/s and no rules.

Here are the files:

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