Traffic Shaping Groups

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I’m looking at setting up a MikroTik device in bridge mode to perform basic traffic shaping on my network.

My desired setup is:

eth0 and eth1 are part of bridge0

I create three different groups for traffic shaping, we will call them:

“Slow” “Fast” “ReallyFast”

Slow = 1megabit/1megabit
Fast = 5megabit/5megabit
ReallyFast = 10megabit/10megabit

Now, I want to make three groups or queues where in I can simply add IP addresses that should be rate limited. I want the rate limited to apply to each IP independently, however. That is, if I have 5 IPs under the ReallyFast queue, I want all 5 to be able to pull 10 each, for a total of 50… NOT all 5 get rate limited to a total of 10megabits aggregate.

I know this is relatively simple to do, I’m just not sure exactly the correct steps and I don’t want to screw this up trying to put it into production. Direction to a wiki or other HowTo is fine, or a simple example.

Thanks.

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I should probably have included… I now how to setup the bridge and turn on firewall mangling, just not sure of the firewall rules to setup to do this.

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I case you haven’t found what you are looking for yet..

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queues_-_PCQ_Examples

I would use the queue tree method. You will need mangle rules, queue trees and queue types for each group.