Hello everybody,

I have a router connected to a 16Mbit ISP connection on ether1.
I need to split this bandwidth to 3 interfaces, let's say to ether2, ether3, ether4, 4Mbit upload/download each.
Alternatively, limiting 3 local IP network ranges to 4Mbit up/down each would also get me to the same goal.

Could someone give me a simple copy/paste solution to start with?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks - I saw that one, but I was not sure.

How could I make sure that I am not dropping packets, but delaying them, as long as it is possible? Is there any rule of thumb for setting the queue size?
Should I change values for built-in queue types, or is it recommendable to create my own queue type if I want to use different values?

That isn't how traffic shaping works. You can't hold packets forever - what if the client sustains a 10 meg rate to the router for an hour? Do you save all those packets up when shaping to 4 megs? That's several gigabytes worth of data. Also you'd introduce massive amounts of latency - which systems generally don't deal well with. If a browser, for example, gives up after not hearing back after 2 seconds and you just held the data and serve it back after 5 seconds, what is the browser supposed to do with that information?

When you rate limit people you're going to be dropping packets. That's the whole point of it.

The default values are excellent rules of thumb.

I see.
I was wondering if there is some kind of back-pressure which could be applied to the source of traffic we are trying to limit. I am not sure if dropping packets is the cleanest and nicest (possible) way to go .....