On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:43:00PM +0200, Praise wrote:
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:54:06PM +0200, Praise wrote:
I just want to learn how to use iptables. I want to set up my firewall by hand, but I have not very clear what does the --limit directive work. Does it only limit how much packets does match a rule? =20 I ask this because I plan to use something to limit the bandwidth of some computer in my LAN.=20
limit only limits the frequency that a packet can match a rule. For=20 example, iptables -A INPUT -m limit --limit 1/min -p icmp -j LOG will=20 only log one ICMP packet per minute.=20
What could I use to limit the bandwidth?
I believe that there is an experimental traffic shaper option in the kernel. To be honest, I don't know how you would do that. -v -- Victor R. Cardona 10:34am up 13 days, 17:05, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.99 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 (i386) 2.4.5-64GB-SMP