KShaper

Introduction

KShaper is a graphical based trafficshaper application made for Linux desktops. It uses iproute2 with an virtual intermediate device and is written in the programming language QT/C++. For now on KShaper is based on HTB qdiscs, this may change in the future.

SourceForge page: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/kshaper/

Features

• Limiting traffic
• Reserve traffic
• Prioritize traffic
• Generates a shell script to configure the Linux traffic shaper. (usefull for startup scripts and learning)

Requirements

• Iproute2.
• QT4
• Linux needs these features in the kernel:
  • IFB(Intermediate Functional Block)
  • HTB (Hierarchical Token Bucket)qdisc
  • Ingress qdisc
  • SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queueing)
  • Universal 32bit comparisons w/ hashing (U32)
  • Actions
  • Redirecting and Mirroring

Downloading and Installing

Releases are at ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/kshaper/ , or you can use the svn version:

rick@thinktop /home/rick $  svn co --username=anonymous --password=anonymous http://open.syn3.nl/syn3/svndav/default/trunk/projects/kshaper
A    kshaper/model.cpp
,,,
A    kshaper/ui/ruleswindow.ui
Checked out revision 137.
rick@thinktop /home/rick/kshaper $ qmake
rick@thinktop /home/rick/kshaper $ make

Starting

rick@thinktop /home/rick/kshaper $ sh ./start.sh

Licenses

• GPLv3

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