Traffic-Shaping on Inliniac

GUI part of Vuurmuur traffic shaping done

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:03:18 +0000

The GUI part of Vuurmuur’s traffic shaping is done. That means it’s in a usable state. It’s probably rough around the edges, but anyone is invited to give it a try. Below two screens.

Vuurmuur shape rule settings.

The per rule shaping settings.

Vuurmuur shape interface settings.

The per interface settings for the shaping.

Vuurmuur gets traffic shaping

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:11:12 +0000

The last weeks I’ve been working on adding traffic shaping support to Vuurmuur. The work is largely done, only the GUI part is still missing. But using vuurmuur_script it is already usable in the current SVN trunk. I’ve written before about my shaping ideas here.

The support currently focuses on three different options:

1. Limiting bandwidth usage by rules.

Per rule a limit can be set for the maximum amount of bandwidth all traffic from this rule uses. Both directions of a connection have different limits. The in_max and out_max options can be added to existing rules for this. The syntax of the in_max and out_max is simple: out_max=15kbps means that traffic in the source to destination direction of a rule can at max use 15 kb/s.

Vuurmuur: first baby steps in traffic shaping

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:51:01 +0000

Quite a while ago a placed a poll on the Vuurmuur Wiki, asking for the most important feature Vuurmuur needs. It turns out most people want traffic shaping. Traffic shaping has been on my todo list for a long time, but i never really got into using it, let alone understand it enough to integrate it into a GUI. So the last couple of days i had some spare time, and i have been checking it out. So far i am distinguishing the following types of traffic shaping.