[Systems] [IT] Bandwidth usage on bender

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 22:29 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> bender:~# tc qdisc add dev sixxs handle ffff: ingress
> bender:~# tc filter add dev sixxs parent ffff: protocol ipv6 prio 50 u32 
> match u8 0 0 police rate 512kbit burst 10k drop flowid :1
> 
> This should take us to the safe side so we can investigate calmly what 
> is causing the traffic.

Added the same rules on Sunjammer, which is our other major endpoint.

Actually, I should have made the tc rule on Sunjammer match bender's
IPv6 subnet to avoid slowing down traffic for other destinations.


> BTW: Is there any HTTP proxy we could/should use? I image at least some 
> of the distros running on our VMs are used by Develer as well, so 
> sharing a proxy would reduce the (internet) traffic for updates.

For generic HTTP traffic, you can use http://proxy.trilan:3128 .
Ubuntu machines should go through an apt-cacher daemon at
http://aptcache.trilan:3142 .

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