Linux traffic shaping

Question

Where can I find out about monitoring / polling a network interface under Linux? I would like to get specific application download / download speeds and provide a speed limit for a specific application.

I especially like the information that can help me write a traffic shaping application using Python.

Answer 1

You need the iproute2 package in which you use the tc command . Tc commands look like

tc class add dev eth2 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 100Mbit ceil 100Mbit quantum 1600

Here's an existing Python traffic shaping application that uses iproute2.

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