shaperd8
Traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks
Usage
shaperd [-h]
[-v]
[-c
file]
Overview
shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through a linux box. As it runs as a normal daemon process, packet forwarding to/from the kernel can be done by the BSD divert sockets layer (available as a patch for the linux kernel) or by the ipq packet forwarding library that comes with kernel 2.4.
The configuration is made via a single text file, you can force a reload by sending a SIGHUP. Logs are routed via syslog, with priority=info, facility=daemon.
Please note that, for the moment, you must instruct the kernel which packets to forward to shaperd. This can be done, for example, with the ipchains(8) utility under Linux 2.2, or with iptables(8) under Linux 2.4. Also, note that if a packet does not match any of the rules in the configuration file, it will be ignored by shaperd (but it will be logged if the log level is high enough).
Options
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-c config-file -
Tells the daemon to get its configuration from this config-file
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-h -
Summarizes command line options
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-v -
Prints version information
Releases
6 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.