bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl http://lartc.org/wondershaper (c) Copyright 2002 magnific0 http://www.github.com/magnific0 (c) Copyright 2012 Licenced under the GPL

Wonder Shaper is a script that allow the user to limit the bandwidth of one or more network adapters. It does so by using iproute's tc command, but greatly simplifies its operation. Wonder Shaper was first released by Bert Hubert in 2002, but the original version lacked a command-line interface, from on version 1.2 this feature was added. The original README is a rather lengthy document and is saved under README.old, for those who'd like some more background information. Except any notes on operation this document is considered up-to-date.

1. Copy the file into your /usr/bin/ folder.

2. If you haven't already done so, change the owner to root and change the permission, like so

    chown root:root /usr/bin/wondershaper 
   
    chmod 744 /usr/bin/wondershaper
   

3. You are now ready to use Wonder Shaper

wondershaper [-hcs] [-a <adapter>] [-d <rate>] [-u <rate>]

The following command line options are allowed:

• -h Display help

• -a <adapter> Set the adpter

• -d <rate> Set maximum download rate (in Kbps)

• -u <rate> Set maximum upload rate (in Kbps)

• -c Clear the limits from adapter

• -s Show the current status of adapter

The different modes are:

wondershaper -a <adapter> -d <rate> -u <rate>

wondershaper -c -a <adapter>

wondershaper -s -a <adapter>

Some examples:

wondershaper -a eth0 -d 1024 -u 512

wondershaper -c -a eth0