[NTLUG:Discuss] Spliting the bandwidth | We've got a hog!

[Chris Cox]

Travis Bell wrote:
> I'm about to move into a house with a buddy of mine, and he's known to be a
> peer-to-peer whore.  He's *constantly* downloading.  I'm transferring my
> AT&T Broadband account to the house we're moving into and we're keeping my
> current linux gateway server to be the gateway for the house.
> 
> My question:  How can I set up the gateway so that his machine is limited
> to half of the bandwidth.  Is it even possible?  (Yes, he's agreed to it
> already)

Absolutely!
http://lartc.org/HOWTO/cvs/2.4routing/html/index.html

...I haven't tried it though.. let us know how it goes...