[mirror-admin] Rate Limiting on our mirror server

[Scott Baker]

I need to keep my mirror choked to a certain bandwidth so it doesn't 
flood our network. I'm using cbq to do this, is there a better tool?

I have two CBQ classes: my network, and "teh internetz"

root at white(/etc/sysconfig/cbq)
:cat cbq-1000.cta
DEVICE=eth0,1000Mbit,100Mbit
RATE=400Mbit
WEIGHT=40Mbit
PRIO=1
RULE=0.0.0.0/0,65.182.224.0/19
RULE=0.0.0.0/0,66.206.80.56/29
RULE=0.0.0.0/0,65.182.230.0/28
RULE=0.0.0.0/0,67.22.240/20

root at white(/etc/sysconfig/cbq)
:cat cbq-9999.inet
DEVICE=eth0,1000Mbit,100Mbit
RATE=100Mbit
WEIGHT=10Mbit
PRIO=5
RULE=0.0.0.0/0,0.0.0.0/0

This works, but I think it's arbitrarily keeping my traffic well below 
the 100Mb/s threshold. With this on, my internet traffic hovers around 
30Mb/s. If I turn this off my internet bandwidth goes up to at least 50Mb/s.

Any CBQ experts out there that can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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Scott Baker - Canby Telcom
System Administrator - RHCE - 503.266.8253

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