QOS – Service with quality using MasterShaper
QOS – “Quality of service” – what a fancy name for somethings that will allow you to manage the available bandwidth for your servers/pcs/equipments. Usually setting up QOS is not “so fancy” to setup and manage. At work I had to setup a QOS for a custumer and didn’t want to be writing rules on my own so I searched a bit and found MasterShaper.
You can read more about it here.
Lets imagine that you want to allow p2p on your network but you don’t want to waste all your bandwidth on that kind of traffic, after all you still need bandwidth for your VOIP, http, and mail traffic.
To setup this I’ll be using CentOS and Mastershaper.
After installing a VMware virtual machine with CentOS (default install with 2 network cards), I’ve setup apache, this time I didn’t use virtualhosts or any other extras as I just wanted to create a single purpose system.
To start I’ve concufigured 2 network interfaces (internal/external)
eth0 192.168.251.249 (external)
eth1 192.168.252.249 (internal)
After downloading MasterShaper decompress it to:
/var/www/html
Install pear and pear modules as described in MasterShapper docs.
And finally create the mysql database to support the installation.
I won’t get into install details (just follow the documentation), but in the end you be able to define schedulers, hosts and services with higher or lower priority and in the end you’ll also be able to monitor all this in a pretty web interface with some graphics.
Just don’t forget to install mysql support in php, and pear, you’ll also have to configure sudo but in the end just read the documentation in mastershaper it’s very good.