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--- unix:traffic-shaping [2009/07/12 20:53]
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+++ unix:traffic-shaping [2013/10/13 12:43]
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   * Limit a single app with the ''trickle'' package
+  * See https://github.com/meermanr/adsl for my wondershaper script designed for a host with a single network adaptor (assumes you have control of your ADSL box)
+===== Force shaping onto someone else's network =====
+Here's a quick-and-dirty guide to how I hijacked my home network when I lived with some other students to force traffic shaping onto the entire network, since two of my housemates had gone away for the weekend and left their torrent clients running.
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 # Open a new terminal
 sudo apt-get install wondershaper
-sudo wondershaper eth0 $((8273*8*1024)) $((1209*8*1024)) # Configure eth0 with 8MBit upload and 1MBit download (converting kB to kbit, and using numbers from my ADSL router web-interface)
+sudo wondershaper eth0 $((8273*8*1024)) $((1209*8*1024)) # Configure eth0 with 8MBit downlink and 1MBit uplink (converting kB to kbit, and using numbers from my ADSL router web-interface)
 wondershaper eth0
     qdisc cbq 1: root rate 10000Kbit (bounded,isolated) prio no-transmit

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