[ale] tcp bandwidth throttling

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:49 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2007-08-01 18:21:23 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> > I've got some things that I want to restrict bandwidth for.
> > Specifically, by port or IP, I want to limit bandwidth to a certain rate
> > (i.e. 1Mb/s).   What are my options for doing this?
> 
> The canonical source for this stuff on a low level in Linux is the
> Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control (the LARTC).
> 
> You're probably interested in the Queueing Disciplines for Bandwidth
> Management:
> 
>  http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.qdisc.html

Thanks Daniel,

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't tc based on physical interfaces as
opposed to IP based?   I have a host with several IP addrs (using
virtual interfaces) and want to limit a handful of IPs to a certain
volume of traffic.  Can tc achieve this?

-Jim P.