How should I manage per-user bandwidth

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Users often run bandwidth intensive applications – peer-to-peer applications, video, etc. Do you monitor and/or cap per-user bandwidth?

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I use the QoS of Tomato firmware on my LinkSys WRT54GL router. It can detect all types of traffic, p2p, video, audio, etc and classify it, giving it bandwidth restrictions and packet priority. I believe you can actually set it per IP Address as well. There is also great bandwidth monitoring by day/week/month.

You could also try DD-WRT as it's very similar, but I really prefer Tomato's UI.

There are some other 3rd party firmwares, but I have only used these two.

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Windows – Application to monitor bandwidth usage per program

You can use the Reliability and Performance Monitor MMC snap-in provided in W2K8 to do just this.

See HERE for a short guide.

Linux – how can I limit per user bandwidth

Just to add on the above question.

You could use iptables with user matching to color the packets like so:

iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m owner --uid-owner someuser -j MARK --set-mark 100

And then use 'tc' to limit on a per user basis.

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