Bandwidth Management Tools For Linux

Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping.

Bandwidth Management Tools is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management software and supports packet queues, bursting, complex traffic flow hierarchies, flow groups, traffic logging, and a simple real-time monitoring front-end.

Here are some key features of "Bandwidth Management Tools":

� XML configuration file format: - Class based traffic categorization - POWERFULL for advanced users!! � Firewalling: - Support for all Netfilter features on host operating system � Traffic shaping (flows): - Shaping of blocks or single ip addresses - Support for bursting based on user definable average period - Multi-level shaping, you can define parents & grand parents � Traffic logging: - Logging of byte, packet, burst & drop counters - Traffic flow grouping � Misc: - Atomic loading of firewall tables into kernel - Supports more than 1 CPU

What's New in This Release:

� More sane error handling in ipq.c. � The buffer size has been fixed to handle larger MTUs. � The ipq interface has been updated. � There are various code cleanups. � This release adds parameters, report-format, report-filename, and flow-mode. � It installs RRD Tool when installing BWM Tools. � It fixes the log directory. � It has better error handling while generating graphs and RRD data. � It fixes a bug preventing graphing from working.