Limiting client bandwidth on the server side?

jermin

Hi,

I'm running openvpn as a tunnel on my Windows 2003 server in a local IDC. I'd like to create some client accounts for my friends, but I don't want them to accidentally occupy the entire server bandwidth by downloading large files. Is it possible to limit the bandwidth for a client? If yes, how?

jermin

Thanks for the help.

I've tried to add shaper option in the server config. But I got this error which would not let the server start:

Options error: --shaper cannot be used with --mode server

This is the server config:

mode p2p
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
server 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   #you may choose any subnet. 10.0.0.x is used for this example.
;ping 10
;ping-exit 40
shaper 25000

ca ca.crt                    #certs are optional. you may choose to go with keys or passwords instead.
cert server.crt
key server.key  
dh dh1024.pem

push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
;push "ping 10"
;push "ping-exit 40"
push "shaper 25000"
;push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.1"
;push "route-metric 512"
;push "route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0"

#the following commands are optional
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
verb 3

jermin

Can I just copy the current installation to a new folder? What config should I use for a P2P server? Is there a tutorial?

I set up my current server following this guide.

kido

ditto. Hope someone can have a better solusyon. I am also trying to limit client bandwidth tried shaper also and same with jermin --shaper cannot be used with --mode server.

I tried also using radius with radius plugin 2.1beta using Ascend-Data-Rate=n, Ascend-Xmit-Rate=n directives it seems to work on tcp but most of our clients are on udp port. Hope someone can have a better solution or direct me to it. been trying to google this for days with no luck.