11 Oct 08 Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 4 – Customization, Debian Scripts, Shaping, Firewall, NAT, picoLCD

Follow On From: 05 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 3 – Installing Debian, Prebuilt Disk Image

Following on from the previous article, I’ve written some scripts which you’ll find in the /root/scripts/ directory of the prebuilt image. I’ve attached and commented them here, as they could also be useful elsewhere.

bridge.sh #For setting up a simple bridge
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Tags: 532a, APNIC Box, bandwidth management, bandwidth rate, bridge, cbq, ifconfig, iproute2, iptables, lcd, Linux, picolcd, qdisc, routerboard, routerboard 532a, shaping, tc, time, usblcd, usleep

14 Sep 08 Extending tc and iproute2. Linux routing split access multiple uplinks multiple isps iptables masquerading

It’s been a while since I last posted here, so I thought I’d post a followup article to http://www.adamsinfo.com/bandwith-limiting-with-linux-tc-and-iproute2/ which focused on bandwidth limiting in a datacenter environment using tc and iproute2.

I’ve taken the same script but tweaked IPs and bandwith values into my office. Previously I was on a 24mbit down 2.5mbit up DSL connection courtesy of www.bethere.co.uk The office is only about 800m from the closest exchange which is quite nice – I generally find I get 18+mbit down and 1.5+mbit up. Not only great bandwidth, but latency is also very small and responsiveness is great, especially as a regular [constant] SSH use. Recently, despite having no business justification whatsoever, I ordered the same again for the same office. This one clocks in at about 19mbit up and 1.7mbit down – even better! Some ISPs support line bonding – I dont believe that many in the UK do, and seeing as at the time of writing, bethere were the only ISP to support anywhere close to 24mbit, I wasn’t going to try and find another.
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Tags: Extending tc and iproute2, faster torrent, iproute2, iptables, Linux routing, masquerading, multiple isps, multiple uplinks, Routerboard load balancing, split access, tc, torrent

02 Jul 08 Bandwidth Limiting HOWTO with linux, tc and iproute2

I’ve recently optimized the scripts used for bandwidth management in one of our UK facilities and I thought I’d post a quick howto on it.

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My setup here is a live feed entering eth0 on this linux router and leaving eth1 into a switch connected to a collection of other servers. This is set up as an unrestricted public router, routing between a /30 on eth0 and a /24 on eth1.
Note: We can’t in any way restrict the amount of traffic that eth0 receives from the outside, so instead we restrict how fast eth0 sends data out, the same applies the other way round. So, if we want to limit the amount of data that the local servers can send, we shape the router’s external interface (eth0). If we want to limit the amount of data that the local servers can receive, we shape the router’s internal interface (eth1)
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Tags: 100mbit, 10mbit, 95th percential, 95th percentile, Add new tag, apt-get, bandwidth management, bmon, bulk, classes, datacenter, debian, external interface, htb, interactive, internal interface, iproute2, Linux, percentile, priority, qdisc, restrict traffic, router, routing, switch, tc, traffic shaping