A note on the bandwidth definition used in this file:

• don't use a space between the integer value and the unit: 30kbit is valid while 30 kbit is not.

• you can use one of the following units:

kbps

Kilobytes per second.

mbps

Megabytes per second.

kbit

Kilobits per second.

mbit

Megabits per second.

bps or number

Bytes per second.

k or kb

Kilo bytes.

m or mb

Megabytes.

• Only whole integers are allowed.

The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is followed by a different name in parentheses, the different name is used in the alternate specification syntax).

INTERFACE

The logical name of an interface. If you run both IPv4 and IPv6 Shorewall firewalls, a given interface should only be listed in one of the two configurations.

TYPE - [external|internal]

Optional. If given specifies whether the interface is external (facing toward the Internet) or internal (facing toward a local network) and enables SFQ flow classification.

IN-BANDWIDTH (in_bandwidth) - {-|bandwidth[:burst]|~bandwidth[:interval:decay_interval]}

The incoming bandwidth of that interface. Please note that you are not able to do traffic shaping on incoming traffic, as the traffic is already received before you could do so. But this allows you to define the maximum traffic allowed for this interface in total, if the rate is exceeded, the packets are dropped. You want this mainly if you have a DSL or Cable connection to avoid queuing at your providers side.

If you don't want any traffic to be dropped, set this to a value to zero in which case Shorewall will not create an ingress qdisc. Must be set to zero if the REDIRECTED INTERFACES column is non-empty.

The optional burst option was added in Shorewall 4.4.18. The default burst is 10kb. A larger burst can help make the bandwidth more accurate; often for fast lines, the enforced rate is well below the specified bandwidth.

What is described above creates a rate/burst policing filter. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.25, a rate-estimated policing filter may be configured instead. Rate-estimated filters should be used with Ethernet adapters that have Generic Receive Offload enabled by default. See m[blue]Shorewall FAQ 97am[][2].

To create a rate-estimated filter, precede the bandwidth with a tilde ("~"). The optional interval and decay_interval determine how often the rate is estimated and how many samples are retained for estimating. Please see m[blue]http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/tc/doc/estimators.txtm[] for details.

OUT-BANDWIDTH (out_bandwidth) - [rate[:[burst][:[latency][:[peek][:[minburst]]]]]]

Added in Shorewall 4.4.13. The terms are defined in tc-tbf(8).

Shorewall provides defaults as follows:

burst - 10kb

latency - 200ms

The remaining options are defaulted by tc(8).