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Re:Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface by betaby on Sunday April 02, 2017 @01:25PM (#14017986)
There is a way to do ingress traffic manipulation, you have to divert it via virtual device. For years this was https://github.com/imq/linuximq/wiki/WhatIs a most common way to do it.
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Re:Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface by wtallis on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:48PM (#14018382)
Yes, and since 2006 there's been IFB in the upstream kernel to do most of the same work. My point was more that the one-way nature of qdiscs is a really huge thing to overlook.
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