Re: [cobalt-users] Adding bandwidth limits fails "The attempt to set the bandwidth limit failed"

[phoenix hawk <phawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi.. stealth guy :P

Stealthhosts.com - Server Administrator wrote:
> When I attempt to add the limit, I select the IP from the dropdown list
> (have tried on all the IP's just in case),
> I then enter the amount (in this case 40 (kbps) as a test) and the error
> message I get is:
> "The attempt to set the bandwidth limit failed. "
> Nothing more and nothing less. It doesnt matter what I type there (e.g
> numeric only, alpha numeric, from 0-400000000)

  If I'm not wrong, the bandwidth limit is in terms of volume (amount),
  ie. 2GB.. instead of a speed limit. It does not do traffic shaping
  or limiting.

  If you need to limit traffic speed to 40kbps, you probably need
  to add another appliance or another piece of network equipment
  in front of your box. Or maybe there's a piece of software written
  by zeffie or someone else on this list :) but, as far as i know,
  traffic shaping/limiting features need to be built into the linux
  kernel... so... chances are low. :)

  In your case, I suspect your sites have already exceeded whatever
  value you intend to put into the system, hence causing the
  error. Maybe you could try the max value instead of just "40".

  Or try setting it in the new year? :P Keep in mind that 40bytes
  of data is really low, so don't set it up and go home for the
  weekend, your users will leave! :P

> My question is, is there anything I can run from the CLI / shell to see what
> the problem actually is, or is there something that is commonly forgotten
> that I may have missed?

  hmm...

> I have searched the archives extensively but have only come up with one
> similar item, but it seems it was never answered and it was more to do with
> reboots, forgive me if there is something in there that I have missed.

  you could look at /var/log/ipacct (that does the tracking of
  amount of data each IP on your server has consumed), but this
  probably wouldn't answer your question about the CLI thing
  above.

 regards.