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Traffice Shaping

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by elisamuel.mckenzie

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What would be a good software option for testing traffic shaping? I want to know how bandwidth is been consume on my network. Is there any free linux version?

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by dumphrey

of routing and ACLs on switches, and QOS as applied to packets on those devices. How your bandwidth is consumed is a product of network monitoring. Linux does have some software to do this, MRTG, Nagios, and others...

by elisamuel.mckenzie

I want to see how the internet connection its been use, i have heard about traffic shaping...you said its a product, but its there anything "lookalike" for linux?

by dumphrey

on your networking gear, switches, routers, not on host machines. As for how a network gateway is being used, a transparent proxy on the gateway would force all lan traffic to go through, and be monitored, befor reaching the internet. IPCop, Smoothwall, Untangle, Squid are all linux options.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping
http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/winter2002/traffic.html

A linux based router to try this with is vyatta. the linux iptables on any linux host will shape traffic to and from the local machine as well.

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