Is there a device or piece of software that can act as a transparent Ethernet bridge and limit bandwidth on MAC by MAC basis?

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So for example, it will only let a particular MAC address on side A use 100kbps in ether direction.

Can you explain how the device you're after is different from a router? — Mark Henderson, Sep 21 '11 at 00:28
You can use it for traffic shaping for not IP traffic. Like NetBIOS over IEEE 802.2, or IPX/SPX. — Mircea Vutcovici, Sep 21 '11 at 01:36

Mircea Vutcovici · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-21T01:40:55.230

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You can configure a Linux bridge with ebtables to mark the packets and tc to shape the traffic.

Also some Cisco switches can do bandwidth limiting. See Cisco:Comparing Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping for Bandwidth Limiting

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answered Sep 21 '11 at 00:17

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '11 at 01:16

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Untangle can do this via the paid bandwidth control app.

answered Sep 21 '11 at 01:16

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I don't believe Untangle does this on a MAC basis, rather an IP/Protocol basis. – Corey Sep 21 '11 at 02:22
Excellent, thanks for the info about this. I'll give it a try as well. – Vick Vega Sep 25 '11 at 03:24
The new 11.2 version of Untangle released today now supports MAC address-based rules. – Joel Coel Aug 19 '15 at 01:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 21 '11 at 00:52

I typically use dummynet in FreeBSD (picoBSD, really) on a floppy or bootable USB token (or in a Virtual Machine) to do this. But you can also do it with iptables in Linux, some configurable switches, and specialty devices like this one or other WAN/LAN emulators.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 21 '11 at 01:13

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Another solution - m0n0wall, designed to test latency in applications which work over network.

answered Sep 21 '11 at 01:13

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Is there a device or piece of software that can act as a transparent Ethernet bridge and limit bandwidth on MAC by MAC basis?

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