Intro - We are planning on applying for Bandwidth-on-Demand from our ISP which gives us upto 8Mbps of data upsteam/downstream. If we exceed the allowable bandwidth the ISP will bill us for additional cost per Mb of data exceeded.
Question - is there a way to setup an ubuntu server to limit the total upstream and downstream bandwidth on the internet facing interface (uplink) to 8Mbps?
Additional info - the server will also work as a gateway server distributing traffic to four subnets each with his own interface.
Go low-complexity, just set your ethernet port to 10Mbps, the natural peaks and troughs will mean you're unlikely to over the 8Mbps.
you could just setup tc on the interface and set the ceil rate to 8mbit.